Some 27 young people, most of them children, were injured in Finland on Thursday when a temporary footbridge by a construction site collapsed and they fell several meters onto a road, rescuers said.

救援人员称，周四，芬兰一座建筑工地旁的临时人行天桥倒塌，造成27名年轻人受伤，其中大多数是儿童，他们从几米高的地方掉到路上。

Approximately 27 youths, mostly minors, have been injured, to varying degrees, the Western Uusimaa rescue department in Espoo, near the capital Helsinki, said in a statement.

位于首都赫尔辛基附近埃斯波(Espoo)的西乌西马(Western Uusimaa)救援部门在一份声明中说，“大约有27名年轻人，其中大部分是未成年人，受到不同程度的伤害。”

Helsinki hospital service HUS said "The injured belonged to a group of schoolchildren" and "the majority of the injuries are limb fractures."

赫尔辛基医院服务中心HUS表示，“伤者属于一群学童”，“大多数伤者肢体骨折”。

Twenty-four of the injured have been transported to various hospitals in the region.

24名伤者已被送往该地区的多家医院。

No one has life-threatening injuries, HUS said in a statement.

HUS在一份声明中说:“伤者均没有生命危险。”

Pictures from the scene showed the footbridge largely intact, with a pile of wooden planks laying in a jumble under one end.Rescue workers could be seen treating multiple people laying injured on the road.

从现场拍摄的照片来看，这座人行桥基本完好无损，只有一堆木板乱七八糟地躺在桥的一端。救援人员正在治疗躺在路上的多名伤者。