Bargain hunters injured in crush after Ikea stampede

SEVERAL people were injured and bargain hunters suffered heat exhaustion after a crowd of thousands forced a flagship Ikea superstore to close on its opening night.

Cars were abandoned on a nearby main road and customers were crushed in the chaos which ensued after the furniture store in Edmonton, north London, launched at midnight yesterday.

The new outlet, the biggest Ikea in England, was due to trade for a full 24 hours, but shut up shop within around half an hour after an “unforeseen volume of customers” descended in the early hours.