[WATCH] Tenerife nightclub floor collapses, injuring 40

The dancefloor of a nightclub in Tenerife has collapsed, injuring 40 people, including two French men, two British men, a Romanian man and a Belgian woman.

The floor gave way at a popular gay nightclub, Butterfly Disco Pub in Playa de las Americas, at about 02:30 local time (02.30 GMT) on Sunday morning, sending people plunging into an empty basement.

Clubbers fell through the floor to the basement of the Butterfly Disco Pub at about 02:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Sunday morning.

“After the floor collapsed, the people who were inside fell to the basement from the height of approximately one floor,” a spokesperson for the regional government told Agence France-Presse.

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The club had its licence in order and did not appear to be overcrowded when the floor caved in, the mayor of Tenerife said.

Emergency services took 21 people to hospital and treated another person at the scene, the regional government said. Another 18 people went to hospital by their own means to be treated. Injuries included broken legs, angle sprains and bruises.

Two of the victims – aged 20 to 59 – who were among the injured were said to be seriously hurt, and were treated for broken legs, fractures and cuts.

Several Britons are among the injured after the floor of a nightclub collapsed in Tenerife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed that several Britons were among the injured. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We are in contact with a number of British nationals who have been injured in an incident in Tenerife and are offering consular assistance.”