Two teachers have described the moments after a wall crushed a schoolgirl.

Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, died after the free-standing concrete modesty wall collapsed on top of her at Liberton High School on Apil 1, 2014.

Statements from police interviews with PE teachers Kerry Sweeney and Stuart Robertson were read out by fiscal depute Gary Aitken during the second day of the fatal accident inquiry at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Ms Sweeney told police she had gone to the changing rooms to tell pupils they would not be playing football because of the weather conditions and on entering the gym heard a bang.

She said: "There were a lot of girls in the changing room and I assumed someone had dropped something.

"I heard girls shouting 'Ms Sweeney, Ms Sweeney' and from the panic in their voices I knew something had happened".

When she went into the gym she noticed the 6.5ft wall had collapsed.

She said: "I think there were three girls standing on the far side. I looked down and I saw a pair of legs but I could not see her face as it was covered by a piece of concrete about a metre square.

"I managed to lift it up and tried to get it away from her head with my hands but I could not, it was so heavy".

Another teacher, Nicole Christie, arrived and the pair managed to lift the block on to its side before noticing it was the 12-year-old who had been trapped underneath.

Ms Sweeney said: "There was a lot of blood, she was lying on her back and her hair was matted across her face.

"She was lifeless, I could only hear a very, very weak gurgle".

Ms Sweeney then ran to the school office and dialled 999 for an ambulance.

She told police she had never heard of the wall moving and added if she had she would have taken action. She had also never seen any pupils kicking or pushing the wall.

Mr Robertson told police the school nurse had come running past carrying a first aid kit and asked him "Where's this incident?"

He said some pupils were standing outside the changing area, sobbing and crying.

Mr Robertson said: "I realised it was not an innocuous incident and I was not prepared for what I saw in the changing room. I could not make sense of what I was seeing".

He said the wall had fallen and broken into pieces "like a jigsaw". He saw a girl on the floor on her back with Ms Christie crouched down beside her.

Mr Robertson said the girl had blood on her face and her mouth was open as the teacher was trying to get a response from her.

He said he heard her saying "Come on Keane".

At the first day of the FAI trial on Monday the court heard that several of Keane's former classmates told police they had warned the school about the safety of the wall.

One schoolgirl claimed she had told three teachers about the wall but was told it was "fine".

Others told of fellow pupils climbing the wall and that it would move "forwards or backwards" if it was pushed, before returning to its original position.