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A woman is in a critical condition after apparently being hit by falling bricks from a building site crane this morning.
Police officers were called at 9.38am to Tower Hamlets in east London, where the shocking incident took place.
An air ambulance was sent to the scene and the woman was taken to hospital with severe injuries.
A second person was also taken to hospital but the severity of their injuries is not known.
Bricks could be seen scattered around a victim as she lay on the pavement with bystanders giving her first aid.
Witness Aladdin Rahman said: "My friend who's a bus driver and was driving a bus at the time it happened, said that some bricks had fallen on the woman.