'Properly, properly horrendous': Witnesses' shock after bus ploughs into bubble tea shop in Piccadilly Gardens

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Witnesses have told of their horror after a bus crashed into a cafe on Piccadilly Gardens. Ambulance chiefs have confirmed there are a 'number of casualties' after the Diamond bus ploughed into T4 bubble tea shop on Monday afternoon.

Eye witness Ellie-Mae Chapman said she saw at least three people injured following the crash at 1.15pm. She added: "I had seen the driver quickly turning right , then I had heard the crash suddenly and people started to rush over.

I could see people trying to help and the police arrived very quickly after and started to get all pedestrians away." A member of staff at Tegtat bakery, next door to T4, said: "I was working on the till and just heard a big noise.

I went outside and the bus had crashed into T4. READ MORE: Shop workers rush to help after boy, 16, struck by police vehicle READ MORE: The top stories across the M.E.N. "I think there were a few people injured, people outside the shop, pedestrians.