A motorway bridge under construction in Colombia has collapsed, killing at least Ten workers and injuring five others.
Motorway Bridge under construction at about 900 feet high mountainous region of central Colombia has collapsed, taking 10 workers life to their deaths. The victims had been doing drainage work on Monday on the Chirijara bridge, a 1,500-foot-long structure over a gorge about an hour's drive from Villavicencio.
The bridge in Chirajara was to be part of a highway connecting the capital, Bogotá, with the city of Villavicencio.
Photos from the scene show a large part of the 450m-long bridge lying in the ravine below.
Transport Minister Germán Cardona spoke of a "catastrophe" and said the cause of the collapse would be investigated.
One of the workers injured in the collapse described the moment it happened.
"Everybody began yelling that the BRIDGE was falling, I didn't have time to think & to do anything and after that, I felt a hit to my head,"
Construction officers aforesaid that luckily, not several staff were on the bridge at the time of the collapse because the employees were receiving a safety briefing.
The bridge is a programme to boost the route leading form of a bold programme to boost the route leading Bogotá to the eastern plains by turning parts of it into a dual carriageway it into a motorway.
The planned works embrace the development of eighteen new tunnels and forty-two bridges and viaducts still as new lighting and CCTV cameras.
The existing - winding and slender - road faces frequent closures with lorries provision the capital with manufacture usually breaking down, block traffic.
The company tasked with the works is Coviandes, a firm that is majority-owned by a Colombian investment corporation.
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