A MAN was rushed to hospital after falling from a Woolwich high-rise building yesterday.

Ambulance crews, London's Air Ambulance and police were called to Calderwood Street yesterday (December 22) at 3.30pm after reports of a person falling from a height - believed to be the Vista building.

A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said the man was treated for shoulder and wrist injuries.

He was taken as a priority to King's College Hospital, but was conscious and breathing at the time.

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