[Cherie]

An urgent safety investigation is under way after a 12-year-old schoolgirl was killed when an internal wall collapsed on top of her at her secondary school in Edinburgh.

Emergency services including paramedics and fire crews who rushed to Liberton high school in south Edinburgh were unable to save the girl's life; she was declared dead at the scene.

No other children are thought to have been hurt in the incident. No details about the girl's identity have been released but her family has been informed. It is thought she was a first-year pupil.

It is thought the wall involved was in the girl's changing room in the school's PE department. Pupils at the school told reporters a wall in the changing room showers had been known to be unstable "for months".

As hundreds of pupils flooded out of the school early following the incident, with many being collected by their parents and some in tears, one child, Tamara Taylor, 12, said she had been told about the accident at assembly.

"The school said a girl was hit by a wall in the changing rooms of the gymnasium. I change there myself, beside that wall. It could have been me," she said.

"The wall looked OK, but it was loose and it wobbled a bit. Some of the kids have been pushing it while they were changing. It has been like that for months."

RIP