Sniffer dogs and a helicopter have been searching the rubble of a mosque which collapsed in Birmingham last night.
The roof of the building fell in on itself at 11.30pm, prompting a major response by police, firefighters, paramedics and rescue workers.
Pictures showed the Mosque, inside an end-of-terrace house in the city's Sparkbrook area, reduced to a heap of metal bars, beams, bricks and roof tiles.
One photo taken inside the ruined building showed heating pipes bent out of shape and piles of bricks on the floor, apparently next to stacked building materials.
The road around the mosque was closed all night and remained shut in one direction at 7am today, according to traffic alerts.
Crews from the West Midlands Fire Service were unsure whether people were trapped inside the building when they arrived.
Sniffer dogs searched the debris and the Birmingham Police Air Service helicopter used infrared scanning to search for any bodies giving off heat.
Emergency services later said no one was thought to be injured.
Firefighters remained at the scene searching the rubble until 3am before they handed the incident over to police.
A West Midlands Police spokesman said the force was not dealing with the incident as a possible crime, but it could later be probed by health and safety officials.
It is not yet known what caused the mosque to collapse.
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