BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| CHINA
In Beijing, China, at least 12 are dead and 4 missing due to a bridge collapse that was under construction. It collapsed friday, with CCTV footage showing the steel arch giving way and collapsing into the water below.
via CBS News:
The cause was a steel cable failure, state news agency Xinhua said.
The People's Daily newspaper said 15 workers and a project manager were on-site at the time. The death toll was initially reported as seven by the newspaper, but subsequent reports put it at six and then state TV doubled the toll.
According to CCTV's report, at least 91 rescue vehicles, including 27 boats, a helicopter and five robots, along with 806 personnel, were deployed to help with the search and rescue effort. The state-run network said six hospitals in the region were prepared to intake victims for treatment.
The bridge on the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway is the world's largest-span double-track continuous steel truss arch bridge, according to People's Daily.
It is also China's first railway steel truss arch bridge spanning the Yellow River — the country's second longest — the report said.
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