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Some 27 young people, most of them children, were injured in Finland when a temporary footbridge by a construction site collapsed and they fell several metres onto a road, rescuers said.

Some 27 young people, most of them children, were injured in Finland on Thursday when a temporary footbridge by a construction site collapsed and they fell several metres onto a road, rescuers said. "Approximately 27 youths, mostly minors, have been injured, to varying degrees," the Western Uusimaa rescue department in Espoo, near the capital Helsinki,…

Some 27 young people, most of them children, were injured in Finland on Thursday when a temporary footbridge by a construction site collapsed and they fell several metres onto a road, rescuers said. The accident happened around 9:20 am when wooden planks are believed to have given way and the youths fell to the ground.

 

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