Students hold up the Factory’s ceiling after it collapses on them (Pictures: Screengrab/MEN)

Students in Manchester were forced to literally raise the roof last night when the ceiling of a club collapsed on top of them.

Footage showed people inside the club holding the ceiling up while others photographed the bizarre moment that occurred early Sunday morning.

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Dancers were caught on video screaming when ceiling literally fell down scattering glass and dust into people’s eyes.

Tom Foster, 20, was at the club said: ‘We were all dancing and we just suddenly had this wooden ceiling panel fall on our heads.


‘As soon as the ceiling went all the lights smashed and fell on everyone, there was crying and screaming, we were just standing there holding it up, with half the room in darkness.



‘It took about two minutes for the DJ to stop, then bouncers rushed in, but there was no plan.

‘I was surprised there was no announcement, I would have thought there would be in a situation like to help people calm, when half the room is holding up the ceiling of a very old building.

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The scary incident is actually the second time the club has battled a falling ceiling.

Salford-student Liam Shaw told student paper The Tab: ‘I felt this rubble fall on my head, not heavy at all, and it went in my eyes, then I saw that people were holding the roof up with their hands and got out of the room as soon as possible.

Roof just fell down in Factory Manchester, maybe there is glass in my eye #probably pic.twitter.com/5Cah0nLJep — Tom (@thomasfoster_) February 12, 2017

‘I wasn’t hurt and I don’t think anyone else was either but security rushed into the 1st floor to try and fix the problem. It was crazy – no one acted scared as such, but it was a bit unnerving definitely.’

Map shows coronavirus hotspots as North East is met with a curfewA spokesperson told MEN: ‘A section of plasterboard came loose from the first floor. The same section that came loose on this exact weekend two years ago.

‘At this stage we are uncertain how or why – no one was hurt and the club was evacuated purely as a precaution – there is no structural issue.’

Club bosses promised students that the ground and second floors would be open by Monday.