More than 80 injured in PE harbour building collapse

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 At least 86 people were injured, two of them seriously, when the first floor of the Eyetu Fisheries building in the Port Elizabeth harbour collapsed on Thursday night.

Police captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg told AlgoaFM News that by late last night, emergency workers were still at the scene.

She says shift workers were crushed beneath the rubble, after the wooden mezzanine floor, which is used as storage space, collapsed onto the canteen area.

Janse van Rensburg says the incident happened during a change of shifts.

She says the metro's emergency services worked closely together to attend to the injured at the scene, before they were taken to various hospitals, adding that no fatalities were reported.

Janse van Rensburg says police are not investigating a crime, adding that Transnet National Ports Authority is likely to launch an investigation into the cause of the incident.