Aman has fallen from the top floor of Westfield Stratford City and landed on a female shopper, who was awaiting to climb and escalator. Footage posted online showed onlookers screaming after the man fell at the complex in east London at around 4pm.Pictures were also circulated of two people lying on the floor being tended to by emergency responders. Later a privacy screen was set up around the area the man fell.Police said neither the man nor the woman have life-threatening injuries. Another video taken in the immediate aftermath of the fall showed three security guards urging members of the public to give space to allow paramedics to reach the two people on the floor. The incident occurred next to an escalator close to the food court in one of the busiest parts of the centre.People were seen peering down from the upper floors before a cordon was put up to obstruct their view. Tatiana Baio, who was working in the Disney Store on the ground floor of the shopping centre during the incident, told MailOnline: 'I just saw a load of people running towards the place where it happened. 'I got a bit scared and customers were a bit surprised after it took place but it's been a normal working day.'Where he fell was right by the escalator but people were looking down and looking at what happened. ' An anonymous witness told Essex Live: 'I was walking through the shopping centre to get to the station when I saw the barriers. 'They landed right outside the food court, which is the busiest place.'It didn't look good at the scene, the ambulance crew weren't in a rush, which is never a good sign. ' The main part of the shopping centre, which is still open today, has three floors.The top floor is thought to be around 120-feet high. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the incident this afternoon.'Police were called at approximately 4pm on Wednesday, 17 October to reports of a man fallen from a height and a woman injured at Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford,' a spokesman said. 'Officers and the London Ambulance Service are in attendance.We await an update on both the man and woman's condition.Enquiries continue. ' The London Ambulance Service said: 'We were called at 3.59pm today to Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford to reports of an incident. 'We sent two ambulance crews, an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic and two single responders in cars to the scene. We treated two people at the scene and took them both to hospital as a priority.' Westfield said: 'The safety and security of our customers is our highest priority and our security team were immediately at the scene to help. We are working with the emergency services as they investigate the incident.' Today was a chilling echo of a similar incident in 2013, when a teenager was seen hanging from a second-floor balcony by his fingertips before plunging to the floor and crashing a 47-year-old man. Security guard Lakhdar Segar, 31, rushed to help when an onlooker told him the 18-year-old was about to

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