Bridge collapse: 4 dead, 60+ injured at Bolivia festival
- 10 years ago
Originally published on March 3, 2014
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Four people were killed and more than 60 people injured when a temporary footbridge collapsed at the opening Carnival parade in the Oruro highlands in Bolivia on Saturday (March 1), according to officials.
"We have decided to begin criminal proceedings against subjects to investigate this incident due to the magnitude of dead and injured," Oruro Attorney General Orlando Riveros told the official ABI news agency.
Interior Minister Carlos Romero said three of the dead were musicians from the Poopo band, while the other was walking on the temporary footbridge, which collapsed due to overload.
The Communications Ministry also released a list of the injured, who include at least 10 minors.
Following the accident, some dancers completed the four-kilometer (2.5-mile) course without their traditional masks and holding a black banner to mark their mourning
At least 35,000 dancers and 6,000 musicians participate in this festival, with around 300,000 people usually attending, according to Agence France-Presse. The parade in the southwestern Andean mining town of Oruro, known as Bolivia's capital of folklore, honors the Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of the tunnels.
UNESCO has placed the carnival in Oruro on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2001, declaring it an "intangible cultural heritage of humanity."
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Four people were killed and more than 60 people injured when a temporary footbridge collapsed at the opening Carnival parade in the Oruro highlands in Bolivia on Saturday (March 1), according to officials.
"We have decided to begin criminal proceedings against subjects to investigate this incident due to the magnitude of dead and injured," Oruro Attorney General Orlando Riveros told the official ABI news agency.
Interior Minister Carlos Romero said three of the dead were musicians from the Poopo band, while the other was walking on the temporary footbridge, which collapsed due to overload.
The Communications Ministry also released a list of the injured, who include at least 10 minors.
Following the accident, some dancers completed the four-kilometer (2.5-mile) course without their traditional masks and holding a black banner to mark their mourning
At least 35,000 dancers and 6,000 musicians participate in this festival, with around 300,000 people usually attending, according to Agence France-Presse. The parade in the southwestern Andean mining town of Oruro, known as Bolivia's capital of folklore, honors the Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of the tunnels.
UNESCO has placed the carnival in Oruro on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2001, declaring it an "intangible cultural heritage of humanity."
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