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Video shows bridge collapsing into water seconds after people run across it | Video shows bridge collapsing into water seconds after people run across it |
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Footage has emerged showing the moment three people avoided being cast into a stretch of rushing water as they passed over a bridge in Colombia - just seconds after the structure collapsed. | |
The one-minute clip shows a bridge which separated two muddy-looking banks on either side of what appears to be a surging river. | |
People are seen running across the bright yellow structure as an official waves them along. | |
As the people clear, an enormous crack on one side of the bridge is revealed. | As the people clear, an enormous crack on one side of the bridge is revealed. |
A man is heard shouting that the bridge “kept opening” and that it will collapse in “less than 10 minutes”. | A man is heard shouting that the bridge “kept opening” and that it will collapse in “less than 10 minutes”. |
The cameraman then retreats as the bridge comes away from the bank, and crashes into the gushing water below. | |
A man is the heard exclaiming “It's gone! It’s gone!” | A man is the heard exclaiming “It's gone! It’s gone!” |
The video was released on YouTube after a powerful storm caused a bridge in Desert Centre, in the Colorado Desert, Calilfornia, to collapse. | The video was released on YouTube after a powerful storm caused a bridge in Desert Centre, in the Colorado Desert, Calilfornia, to collapse. |
In an unrelated incident, flash floods swept through the remote area on the state's 10 Freeway, and resulted in a nearly 50-mile long closure for 5 days, KTLA5 news reported. | |
Luckily, neither incident was deadly, although bridge collapses in the past have killed many. | |
In 2001, a pillar on a bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, gave way and killed more than 50 people after a bus tour and two cars plunged into the Douro River. | In 2001, a pillar on a bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, gave way and killed more than 50 people after a bus tour and two cars plunged into the Douro River. |
Some 101 people died in Hanover, Germany, in 1998 after a high-speed train became derailed and caused an overpass to collapse, according to ABC News. | Some 101 people died in Hanover, Germany, in 1998 after a high-speed train became derailed and caused an overpass to collapse, according to ABC News. |