[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

[Z]

That's shocking

[arista]

Yes some pupils have said the Wall kept moving.


Of course the Head of school
can not say anything
until Police have done everything

[Niamh.]

Oh wow how sad, it's disgraceful though that they allowed this to happen, knowing that the wall was a safety issue

[arista]

Keane Grace Wallis-Bennett, 12, was named as the girl who died.
Photograph: Facebook

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...wall-collapsed

[Kazanne]

This is awful,I cant imagine how her parents feel,If it was me I'de be gunning for them ,they knew the wall wasn't safe,and now some poor kid has lost her life due to their negligence,ide be so sodding angry.

[smudgie]

So tragic.

More so as it appears it could have been avoided had the school put the safety of the pupils first.

Heads will/ should roll.

[Nedusa]

The Company I work for and the Industry in general are red hot when it comes to safety in all aspects of life, workplace,home etc..

We are not allowed to carry a cup if it does not have a cover on it or walk down the stairs without holding the rail.

Every aspect of safety is analysed and tbh it is quite annoying but I guess accidents are uncommon and when they do occur they are usually only minor cuts,grazes etc..

So can anybody tell me how in the hell a school with over 600 pupils cannot know that a major structural wall is unsafe to the point it was reported as "moving"

and yet no one said or done anything and now a young girl is dead and another family bereaved. Hard to understand how something like this could happen.

Total ridiculous, totally avoidable....somebody in that school is going to have to pay a price for this stunning case of negligence.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

The Company I work for and the Industry in general are red hot when it comes to safety in all aspects of life, workplace,home etc..

We are not allowed to carry a cup if it does not have a cover on it or walk down the stairs without holding the rail.

Every aspect of safety is analysed and tbh it is quite annoying but I guess accidents are uncommon and when they do occur they are usually only minor cuts,grazes etc..

So can anybody tell me how in the hell a school with over 600 pupils cannot know that a major structural wall is unsafe to the point it was reported as "moving"

and yet no one said or done anything and now a young girl is dead and another family bereaved. Hard to understand how something like this could happen.

Total ridiculous, totally avoidable....somebody in that school is going to have to pay a price for this stunning case of negligence.

A young girl interviewed and sounding extremely shocked confirmed she had told her PE teacher (now left) months ago but he said it was fine, and I assume she is not the only one to have reported it.

[Z]

Surely it was just ignored because the school had no money to replace it, there's just no other excuse imaginable

[arista]

Originally Posted by Z

Surely it was just ignored because the school had no money to replace it, there's just no other excuse imaginable

Yes but they can not put that out.
Murder