Wetherspoons claim some customers faked injuries when a Welsh pub ceiling collapsed during Storm Arwen.
The North and South Bank pub in Wrexham remained shut on Saturday after being evacuated on Friday night after chunks of plaster came tumbling down from the ceiling, North Wales Live reports.
Wetherspoons has confirmed no staff or customers were injured during the incident.
However, the pub chain claim some customers who were at the bar at the time 'pretended' to have been injured.
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A spokesperson for JD Wetherspoon told North Wales Live: “At 10:23pm (Friday) the ceiling inside the N&S Wales Bank to the right of the bar collapsed. Staff called the emergency services and evacuated the pub immediately.
"No customers or staff were injured although two customers pretended they had been hit but when confronted by the police and Wetherspoons staff looking at CCTV it showed clearly that no customers were struck by any debris."
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The Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called to the scene at 10.26pm following reports of two potentially injured customers.
In a statement, they said one rapid response vehicle attended the scene but the potentially injured customers had left by the time paramedics arrived and the team was stood down.
Footage filmed inside the pub shows customers rushing to get out of the way of the falling debris. The pub will remain closed until further notice while a structural engineer, builder and architect assess the damage.
North Wales Police have been contacted for comment on the incident at the North and South Bank pub, North Wales Live reports.
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