Helicopter Crashes into Scotland Pub

Photo Credit: AP/JAN HOLLANDSA police helicopter crashed late Friday night into the roof of a popular pub in Glasgow, Scotland, leaving the building littered with debris and emergency crews scrambling to the scene.

Photos taken at the scene on Stockwell Street, located near the banks of the River Clyde, showed a helicopter smashed into the roof of The Clutha pub. Part of the roof appears to have caved in. Emergency workers can be seen near the pub’s door.

It was not immediately clear how many people were injured in the crash. The helicopter, described as a Eurocopter EC135 T2, had a crew of two police officers and a civilian pilot, the official Police Scotland Twitter feed said.

But Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party and first minister of Scotland, tweeted that “given an incident of this scale, we must all prepare ourselves for the likelihood of fatalities.”

Labour party spokesman Jim Murphy said there had been multiple injuries, the BBC reported. Reports of people trapped inside could not be immediately confirmed.