Six killed, 10 missing in China bridge collapse

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Six people were killed and 10 are missing after part of a bridge under construction collapsed on Friday in northwest China, state media reported.

A video published by state broadcaster CCTV showed the middle of the bridge’s arch section suddenly giving way and plunging into the waters of the Yellow River below.

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.

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. Punch