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Floor collapses during lunch hour inside Indonesia stock exchange, injuring 80

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Floor collapses inside Indonesia stock exchange&comma; injuring 80 &&num;8211&semi;  a mezzanine floor inside the tower  collapsed during lunch hour Monday<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Most of the injured were college students from Palembang in Sumatra&comma; visiting the stock exchange as part of a study tour&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Authorities  ruled out terrorism as a cause of the collapse &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8220&semi;There is no bomb element in the incident&comma;&&num;8221&semi;National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content entry-content-read-more">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288401" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Jakarta-stock-exchange-tower-crash-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Jakarta stock exchange tower crash 2&period;jpg" width&equals;"664" height&equals;"374" &sol;>Rescuers evacuate injured persons from the Jakarta Stock Exchange tower in the Indonesian capital on Monday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A mezzanine floor inside the Indonesian Stock Exchange tower in Jakarta&comma;  collapsed on Monday&comma; injuring nearly 80 people and forcing a chaotic evacuation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Security camera footage circulated online showed the collapse&comma; with a group of people plunging several meters &lpar;yards&rpar; to the floor as the structure gives way beneath them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;People fled the building through a lobby strewn with debris&period; Emergency personnel tended to the injured on the grass and pavement outside the tower&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;National police spokesman Setyo Wasisto said most of the injured were college students from Palembang in Sumatra who were visiting the stock exchange as part of a study tour&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wasisto ruled out terrorism as a cause of the collapse&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There is no bomb element in the incident&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Figures released by five hospitals showed 77 people were injured&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A spokeswoman for Jakarta’s Siloam Hospital said it had received more than two dozen victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;An-injured-man-is-carried-out-of-the-Jakarta-Stock-Exchange-1&period;jpg&quest;ssl&equals;1&amp&semi;w&equals;612" alt&equals;"An injured man is carried out of the Jakarta Stock Exchange&period;jpg" width&equals;"692" height&equals;"459" &sol;><strong>A victim is lifted by responders out of the debris at the Jakarta Stock Exchange after the floor collapsed on Jan 15<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A college student from Palembang said she felt a tremor just before the floor collapsed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The structure suddenly collapsed&comma; causing chaos&comma;” the student&comma; identified said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She said some of her friends were hit by debris and suffered head injuries and broken bones&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The stock exchange remained open for its afternoon trading session and its general manager&comma; Tito Sulistio&comma; asserted no one had been killed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I guarantee that there were no fatalities&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I helped evacuate the victims to the park and as far as I know&comma; the worst injuries are fractures&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said the exchange will pay the students’ medical costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-288402" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Jakarta-stock-exchange-tower-crash-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Jakarta stock exchange tower crash 3&period;jpg" width&equals;"703" height&equals;"394" &sol;><strong>Police provide security near the ruin of a structure inside the Jakarta Stock Exchange tower in Jakarta&comma; Indonesia&comma; on Monday&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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