80 injured in floor fall

A MEZZANINE floor inside the Jakarta Stock Exchange tower has collapsed, injuring nearly 80 people and forcing a chaotic evacuation.

Security camera footage circulated online showed the collapse, with a group of people plunging several metres to the ground as the structure gave way beneath them.

People fled the building through a lobby strewn with debris. National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said most of the injured were college students from Palembang in Sumatra who were visiting as part of a study tour.