Several people seriously hurt after lift crashes to ground on building site

Police arrive at the site where a construction lift crashed to the ground on a building site in Sundbyberg, near Stockholm (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)

A temporary lift crashed to the ground on a building site in Sweden on Monday, seriously injuring several people, police said.

The construction elevator fell about 66ft with four or five people inside in Sundbyberg, north of the capital Stockholm, Kurt Jonsson, a spokesman for the rescue service, told Swedish news agency TT.