Effondrement d’un pont en chantier: 12 ouvriers tués
More than 380 rescuers, firefighters and police officers took part in the rescue operations towards the Jianzha railway bridge on the Sichuan-Qinghai line.
Twelve workers were killed and a dozen others are missing after a railway bridge under construction collapsed Friday in northwest China, state media reported.
A video released by state television CCTV shows the bridge giving way in the middle of the night and a large part of the structure plunging into the waters of the Yellow River, dozens of meters below.
Fifteen workers and a project manager were on site, the People's Daily reported. The Xinhua news agency cited a broken steel construction cable as the cause.
The Jianzha Bridge on the Sichuan-Qinghai line is the world's longest double-track steel truss arch bridge and the first of its kind across the Yellow River, according to the People's Daily.
More than 380 rescuers, firefighters and police officers took part in the rescue operations, according to "New China".
Workplace accidents are frequent in China, a vast country with countless construction sites and factories but sometimes insufficient safety standards.
Last December, 13 people were reported missing after a collapse at the construction site of a major railway line in Shenzhen, a southern metropolis. No survivors were reported.
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