{"id":56778,"date":"2018-01-16T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56778"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:31:08","slug":"at-least-10-killed-in-colombia-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/at-least-10-killed-in-colombia-bridge-collapse.html","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 killed in Colombia bridge collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">At least 10 killed in Colombia bridge collapse<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">At least ten people were killed Monday after a bridge collapsed near Bogota, Colombia, according to the country&#8217;s Civil Defense authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Known as the Chirajara bridge, the structure was under construction and not operational at the time of the collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Nine people were killed at the site of the accident and a tenth victim succumbed to injuries at a local hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;The victims are construction workers who were working on the project&#8217;s drainage,&#8221; the Colombian Civil Defense said in a statement. &#8220;We are still working to verify the total number of people who were working at the time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The bridge was part of the main thoroughfare connecting Bogota to Villavicencio, a city southeast of the capital. It was estimated to be 446 meters long, according to the National Infrastructure Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The infrastructure agency also announced that it will visit the site to investigate the accident at the request of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Minister of Transportation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A search and rescue mission is underway to locate additional missing persons, the Colombian Civil Defense said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;All my solidarity with relatives of the victims,&#8221; President Santos said in an official tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/15\/americas\/colombia-bridge-collapse\/index.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/at-least-10-killed-in-colombia-bridge-collapse.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 killed in Colombia bridge collapse At least ten people were killed Monday after a bridge collapsed near Bogota, Colombia, according to the country&#8217;s Civil Defense authorities. Known as the Chirajara bridge, the structure was under construction and not operational at the time of the collapse. 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