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Thread: China: Fireworks destroy 260' Bridge, Cars Drop 100'

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    China: Fireworks destroy 260' Bridge, Cars Drop 100'

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/...idge-collapse/


    Hong Kong (CNN) -- A truck carrying fireworks on an expressway bridge in central China exploded Friday, causing part of the bridge to collapse and sending dozens of vehicles plunging off the edge, authorities said.
    The exact number of casualties wasn't immediately clear. Highway police in Henan province, where the explosion happened, said on their official microblog account that at least 11 people had been killed.
    But that post was later deleted and replaced with one that gave the lower total being reported by Xinhua, the official state news agency. By late Friday afternoon, Xinhua was citing local authorities as saying that eight people had been killed.
    The state-run China National Radio had earlier reported on its website that as many as 26 people had died in the disaster. It didn't say where it got the information from.




















    Authorities have closed the expressway while search and rescue efforts are under way, Xinhua reported, and 13 injured people have been retrieved from the wreckage so far.
    At least 25 vehicles are believed to have fallen off the bridge to the ground about 30 meters (100 feet) below, Xinhua said.
    State broadcaster CCTV carried footage of a yawning gap in one part of the bridge, with mounds of debris, including rubble and parts of vehicles, spread out below
    Rescue workers in bright orange overalls clambered over upturned trucks, looking for survivors.


    Xinhua said an 80-meter (260-foot) stretch of the bridge had collapsed after the explosion, which occurred at 8:52 a.m. local time in Mianchi County.

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    Geeesh, that's awful. Thankfully, this does not happen very often.

    It will be interesting to see if new rules and laws are conjured up to prevent this from ever happening again...
    And, unfortunately those new laws (and the news reporting this tragedy) will have unintended consequences.

    Where are all the "broken window" economic sunshine blowers on this tragic (presumed) accident?

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    Wow, what a tragedy. You never know when your time will come, and you breathe your last breath of life. RIP, and prayers for their families.



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