Forty hurt after resort nightclub floor caves in

FORTY people, including two British men, were injured after part of the floor at a packed nightclub on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife collapsed yesterday, sending clubbers plunging into the basement.

Rescuers went to the Butterfly Disco Club in Adeje at about 2.30am after 44 sq ft of its floor gave way.

Emergency services took 21 people to hospital and treated another person at the scene. A further 18 people made their own way to hospital, said Jose Miguel Rodriguez Fraga, the mayor of Tenerife. The injured included two British men, two French men, a Romanian man and a Belgian woman, local firefighters said.

Authorities said the basement was not in use and was empty at the time of the collapse. The Foreign Office said it was in contact with “a number of British nationals” who had been injured. Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the incident.