A woman whose home was damaged by the collapsing crane in east London said her family are lucky to be alive.
In a shaking voice, the woman who did not want to give her name said she felt “traumatised” after the crane fell in Bow on Wednesday afternoon, killing one person.
She said her home is next door to the one which felt the full impact of the crash, and said the collapse sounded “like an earthquake”.
Damage done to a roof by the crane collapse in Bow
She said her dad was walking back into the house to tell everyone "move, there is a crane coming down."
Describing the devastation left in her home after the collapse, she described how there was rubble and smoke everywhere.
Firefighters rescuing people trapped in their home in Bow
She added that the noise "sounded like an earthquake" or almost like a stone that someone had "chucked into our home."
Homes damaged by the falling crane in Bow
She was speaking from beside the police cordon, which had been thrown up inside the densely-packed inner city patch of east London, but it was still in the shadow of a large crane that stood overhead.
Pointing to the crane, she said:
Residents have been evacuated to a nearby school and emergency services work within the cordon at the scene.
Wreckage of the crane in Bow
Resident Alom Uddin, 28, said he was called to the scene by his cousin who said that a crane had collapsed on their house.
