- Ten workers died after a bridge they were building in Colombia collapsed
- Authorities say the laborers were working on drainage along the bridge
- The collapse sent pieces of the bridge down into a canyon below
Colombian officials say 10 workers died after a bridge they were building outside the nation’s capital collapsed.
Civil Defense authorities say the laborers were working on drainage along the partially-constructed bridge when the structure fell Monday about 60 miles from Bogota.
Nine people were killed at the scene and the 10th died after being taken to a nearby hospital with severe injuries.
Ten workers have died after the bridge in Colombia collapsed while they were working on it
The bridge was not yet open to the public and the laborers were working on drainage
Authorities are still working to determine how many people were working on the bridge at the time of the collapse and if anyone is missing.
The cause of the collapse, which sent pieces of the bridge down into a canyon below, is under investigation, Reinaldo Romero, head of disaster response for Meta province,said.
The bridge, located in Chirajara on the border of Cundinamarca and Meta provinces, was to be part of the highway that connects the capital Bogota and the city of Villavicencio, and was not yet in public use.
The cause of the collapse sent pieces of the bridge down into a canyon below. The body od a worker (blurred) can be seen among the rubble
This photograph of the bridge before the collapse shows how much of the structure collapsed Monday