Miami – Rescue workers combed through the rubble of a pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto several lanes of traffic at Florida International University in Miami, but hopes of finding more survivors were fading early on Friday, police said.
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Six people were confirmed dead after the newly built 950-ton bridge crushed vehicles on one of the busiest roads in South Florida on Thursday. With at least eight vehicles buried and out of reach beneath the rubble, the death toll could rise, Juan Perez, the Miami-Dade Police Department director, said on Friday.
“There must be some others in the vehicles,” Perez told Miami’s NewsRadio 610 WIOD. “We know there’s bodies down there and we can’t get to them. It’s terrible.”
Emergency personnel with sniffer dogs searched for signs of life overnight.
At least 10 people were taken to hospitals and two remained in critical condition, officials and local media reported.
Witnesses told local media the vehicles were stopped at a traffic light when the bridge collapsed on top of them at around 1:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT).
At one point, police urged television helicopters to leave the area so that rescuers could hear any cries for help from those trapped beneath the collapsed structure, CBS Miami television said.
Uncertainty over the stability of remaining sections of the bridge hampered rescue efforts, officials said.
Was this bridge made in China?
I am not qualified to speculate but will add my two cents.
Possible contributory causes include;
1, Faulty engineering calculations (especially with the way it was swung in).
2, Faults in the foundation work.
3, Possible steel beams imported from China.
I watched over a period of years a Hotel under consruction at a major European airport that spent years connecting the steel beams and then removing them. It turns out the first general Contracter quit when they discovered they had been using steel beams from China with bubbles and weak spots.
Right. Made in China. Because China has a monopoly on poor workmanship.
Looks like no country has a monopoly on stupidity.