Three feared trapped as London flats collapse

The flats - above a row of shops on White Hart Lane close to Tottenham Hotspur football club - came down at about 8 a.m

Five people are still believed to be missing in the rubble of a three-storey block of flats which collapsed in London today.

The flats - above a row of shops on White Hart Lane close to Tottenham Hotspur football club - came down at about 8 a.m., police said.

Rescue workers are using highly sensitive microphones in an attempt to hear whether there are any survivors.

A monitoring officer at the scene said there was "no reason why people can't survive, if the conditions are right, for many, many hours".

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A Metropolitan Police spokesman said three people - believed to live in the flats, including a baby - were helped from the building. The woman was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises, and the man and baby were unharmed.