BREAKING: Dance floor collapses at Brit holiday hotspot leaving 22 injured

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BREAKING: Dance floor collapses at Brit holiday hotspot leaving 22 injured

THE dance floor of a nightclub in Tenerife has caved in and left 22 people injured.

Revellers were in the Playa de las Americas area of the island around 2.30am when they plunged into the basement.

Emergency services rushed to the scene and the casualties were taken to nearby hospitals.

Two have been left with serious injuries, local media reports.

Three people have suffered broken legs including a 38-year-old Frenchman.

The oldest of the casualties is thought to be 60 and the youngest 29.

The area is popular with British tourists and several have posted on the club’s Facebook page – but it is unknown if any are among the injured.

Officials say other casualties include a Romanian man and a Belgian woman.

A spokesman for an emergency services co-ordination centre said: “We received an alert that the floor of a disco had given way in an area of approximately four square metres.

“After collapsing, the people who were inside plunged about a floor’s height into the basement.”

The incident is said to have occurred at the Butterfly Disco Pub, which describes itself as a gay club.

It is located on the shopping centre on the main strip, Avenida Rafael Puig Lluvina, in the municipality of Adeje.

One recent British visitor wrote on its Facebook page: “This club is great especially on a Friday and Saturday night. The Go-Go dancer is very hot and the drag show at 2am is also good."

A spokesman for the club said: “We get a lot of foreign visitors including people from Britain so it’s possible that there are British people injured but I just don’t know at the moment.

“I helped to clear the club because our main concern was making sure as many people as possible got out safely and after that I don’t know what happened inside.

“The collapse affected part of the stage area and part of the floor."