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Alexandra Rucki

Woman fighting for life in hospital after falling from apartment block in former mill

A woman is fighting for life in hospital after falling from a former mill in Bolton.

Emergency services scrambled to Holden Mill, on Blackburn Road, in the Astley Bridge area.

The woman, aged in her 20s, was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Police, firefighters and the ambulance service were called to the incident just before 12.50am this morning.

The building used to be a cotton mill but has since been converted into an apartment block.

A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: "We were called at 12.50am this morning to reports of a woman in her 20s falling from a building on Blackburn Road.

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"She is in a critical condition."

The North West Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 12.42am this morning.

"We attended with our hazardous area response team, as well as two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle.

"We have taken a patient to hospital in a critical condition."

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue: "We were called at 12.53am this morning to Blackburn Road in Bolton. Five fire engines and a hydraulic platform attended to a call of a rescue of a person at height.

"We used a 13.5m ladder, a hydraulic platform, a stretcher and lighting to help with a rescue."

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