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VIDEO. Mexico: a suspended footbridge creaks under the weight of visitors, at least 25 injured

2022-06-08T10:12:14.316Z


The bridge had just been rebuilt but collapsed when a group of officials passed by in a town 80 km from the capital Mexico City. More


It's an inauguration that ends very badly.

While a group of people crosses a small bridge in a park in the city of Cuernavaca, it gives way and collapses three meters below.

Journalists and other witnesses of the scene were numerous to immortalize in video this reopening of this bridge which spans the Paseo Ribereño.

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Among the injured are Mayor José Luis Urióstegui, his wife Luz María Zagal, other notables and residents who were taking part in the bridge reopening ceremony.

The accident was experienced almost in real time on social networks with a video showing the guests falling two meters lower in the bed of a stream when the floor gave way.

"There are at least 25 injured," local official Samuel Sotelo told Milenio TV.

“Two were hospitalized with serious injuries,” he said.

Source: leparis

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