A railway bridge under construction in China has collapsed, killing at least 12 people.
Four people remain missing after the incident in China’s Qinghai province on Friday
It’s understood a steel cable failure is to blame for causing the 108-metre section to fall at around 6pm.
A major rescue effort was launched involving 806 people, including 91 vehicles, 27 boats, a helicopter, and five robots.
Around 16 people were working on the bridge at the time of the accident.
The bridge would have been the first streel truss arch railway bridge in China to cross the Yellow River.
It’s not the first time China has suffered a deadly bridge collapse.
At least 11 people were killed in the Shaanxi province after a motorway bridge broke apart in heavy flooding in July last year.
A month later, people looked on in horror after the Shui’an Longting bridge in Guizhou, collapsed.
A lorry was left dangling over a bridge after landslides in the cyclone-hit Guizhou province in June this year.
And earlier this month, five people died after a suspension bridge in Xinjiang, a popular tourist attraction, snapped and caused 29 people to fall.
