More than 250 people have been injured, five of them seriously, after part of a wooden promenade collapsed at a music festival in Spain, local officials said yesterday. The seafront platform, which was 30 metres long by 10 metres wide, was packed with people watching a rap artiste in the northwestern city of Vigo when it suddenly collapsed just before midnight yesterday, Vigo mayor Abel Caballero told reporters at the scene.

"The causes have yet to be determined. Everything indicates that no one is trapped underneath," he added. Witnesses told Spanish media that people struggled to scramble for safety from under the debris of the structure. A total of 266 people were injured, five of them seriously with broken bones requiring hospitalisation, the regional health minister in the northwestern region of Galicia, Jesus Vazquez Almuina, told local radio.