3 dead in China bridge collapse

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A preliminary investigation shows the collapse had been caused by an overloaded truck according to the Wuxi City government.

BRIDGE COLLAPSE. This photo taken on October 10, 2019 shows a crowd watching workers at the site of a highway overpass collapse in Wuxi, China's eastern Jiangsu province. - Three people were killed and two injured in eastern China when a highway overpass collapsed and crushed cars below it, local officials said on October 11.

One clip posted on Twitter-like Weibo showed the bridge narrowly missing a small three-wheel car, whose driver leapt out and ran away. Other images showed crushed cars, with only their front sections or headlights visible under a huge block of grey concrete. A preliminary investigation showed the collapse had been caused by an overloaded truck, the Wuxi city government said in a statement on Weibo.

Three vehicles – including one that was parked and unoccupied – were crushed, and 3 people in the two other cars were killed, according to the statement.The collapse also left two people injured, the statement said.In February 2018, at least eight people died in downtown Foshan, Guangdong province, when a water leak inside a subway station construction site caused a major road to cave in. –

 

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