00:00Watch. Entire section of China's newly opened bridge collapses. Crashing into river below.
00:06Screen grab via X. Viral footage captured the moment that an entire section of a newly constructed
00:12bridge in China's Sichuan province. Collapsed Tuesday. Just months after it officially opened.
00:18The 758-meter Hongchi Bridge, part of a major national highway linking China's interior with
00:24Tibet, gave way after. Heavy landslides struck the surrounding mountainside. Authorities in
00:30Merkang City told Reuters. Videos circulating on social media show the moment the bridge gave way,
00:36with dust billowing upward before the road. Fell hundreds of meters. Other images and video show
00:42large sections of the bridge missing and the remaining roadway hanging over the river. As
00:46rescue and inspection crews cordoned off the area. Police had already closed the bridge to all
00:51traffic on. Monday afternoon. Warning of cracks on nearby slopes and visible ground shifts that
00:57signaled instability. By Tuesday afternoon, conditions on the mountainside worsened,
01:02triggering landslides, leading to the collapse of. The approach bridge and roadbed, according to a
01:08statement from the local government. Officials added that there were no reports of injuries or
01:13fatalities. The Hongchi Bridge, built to strengthen connections between Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau,
01:19was completed earlier. This year. Promotional footage posted online by its contractor,
01:25Sichuan Road and Bridge Group, showed the. Structure's opening celebrated as a local
01:30engineering milestone. Authorities said the investigation into the cause of the failure
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