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People's Republic of China 19 July 2024 Road bridge Collapse due to flooding at least 38 killed, 24 missing As a result of heavy rainfall, a section of the highway bridge collapsed. [186] Road bridge of Yakang expressway Ganzi, Sichuan: People's Republic of China 3 August 2024 Road concrete bridge Collapse due to mudslide 5 missing
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A bridge across the Douro river collapsed as a bus and three cars were crossing, killing 59. [7] March 16 – Sudan – A bus collided with a tanker truck in Kosti, killing at least 21 and injuring 50. [8] March 19 – Philippines – A diesel tanker crashed into five vehicles before catching fire in Parañaque, killing 14 and injuring three. [9]
The death toll has risen to 38 from the partial collapse of a highway bridge that plunged two dozen vehicles into a rushing river two weeks ago, China's state broadcaster CCTV reported Friday ...
The Duge Bridge (), also called the Beipanjiang Bridge, is a four-lane cable-stayed bridge on the border between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It spans the deep gorge of the Nizhu River (a tributary of the Beipan ), near the town of Duge.
The Beipanjiang Bridge suspends nearly 2,000 feet above the Beipan river, and extends 2,300 feet between China's mountains. When the construction is completed, the extension will cut the travel ...
The bridge was designed to handle 55 tons, but the combined weight of heavy trucks, amounting to at least 500 tons, caused the bridge to collapse. The collapse was blamed mostly on the construction design and on the project's having been finished too quickly and on traffic controllers having allowed, onto the bridge, vehicles of excessive ...
Guangzhou, on the delta of the Pearl River is one of China’s busiest seaports. The Lixinsha Bridge is located in the Nansha district was at the time the fastest growing port of southern China. [2] [3] Local authorities said that reinforcement work, including constructing "collision avoidance facilities" at four bridge piers, had been ...