Tuesday, April 14, 2009

With the collapse of a bridge in Peru, killed eight people.

As a result of the fall of the suspended footbridge in the mountainous regions of Peru, killed at least six students and two of their teachers, the Associated Press April 13.
The incident occurred in the province of Ayacucho. At a wooden bridge 120 meters long, suspended from steel trossov at a height of 70 meters above the ravine, at the same time were about 80 people. For some reason, not the bridge will withstand such pressure and collapsed.
According to some reports, bringing the total affected to 70 people, of whom 33 people hospitalized with severe cranio-cerebral injuries. Rescue work on the evacuation of about 30 people are continuing, people are brought to hospital by helicopter.

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