Two people died when an electric car from Chinese company Nio, fell from the third floor of the company's headquarters in Shanghai, according to a company statement on the Chinese platform Weibo.
The accident occurred last Wednesday during a test of one of Nio's cars at the company's headquarters. One of the dead was a Nio employee, while the other worked at a Nio supplier.
Photos on social media show the chaos at the scene of the accident.
In one of the photos, rescuers can be seen surrounding a grey car, with broken windows and debris lying around it.
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"Based on the analysis of the situation at the scene, it can be preliminarily confirmed that it was an accident and not related to the vehicle itself," Nio wrote on Weibo. Investigations are continuing, it added.
The company did not specify what caused the accident. Various Chinese media reports described the floor from which the car fell as a testing, parking or showroom.
The car involved in Wednesday's incident appears to be an ET5 model, which features autonomous driving technology, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
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