The death toll from a crashed mountain bridge in China’s southwestern Guangdong province has risen to 48 as of Thursday, according to , reports , in Chinese condition- owned advertising.
The event occurred in the early evening hours of Wednesday, May 1, when a around 59- feet- lengthy section of the highway collapsed, sending vehicles down a slope.
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The Emergency Management Ministry has sent a staff to guide the continued rescue work, urges local work to speed up search and rescue operations, treat those who suffered injury, reduce deaths, and establish the cause of the incident, according to China’s state-run news agency Xinhua on Thursday.
After passing the area just before it collapsed, witnesses reported hearing a loud noises and seeing a large hole opened up behind them.
A witness told Guizhou China,” We stopped and got out of the car to test, and the street had collapsed.”
Another video shows the scene of the accident with blackened cars on the side of the road and some of the turnpike scaffolding slanting into the embers.
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The South China Morning Post (SCMP ) reported on Wednesday that, in accordance with comments made by a mechanical engineer to local press, the accident may have been caused by the province’s current heavy rain, though Chinese officials have not yet officially stated the cause of the decline.
An engineer by the name of Chen reportedly told Jiemian News that the area’s recent continuous downpour had pushed the earth downwards because it had accumulated water pressure inside the crevices. According to the author, “it may have been caused by the poor drainage following a significant amount of rainfall, which caused the crack-prone parts to continue to deform and expand,” leading to the collapse.
An adequate monitoring and warning system was” not properly in place,” according to the engineer, adding that such landslides were typically detected and could be avoided.
According to reports, Chinese authorities are looking into the DNA of three people who have not yet been identified, which could increase the death toll to 51. According to information provided by the Meizhou City authorities, reportedly 30 people were left with non-life-threatening injuries.
An aerial drone photo taken on May 2, 2024 shows the site of an expressway collapse on the Meizhou- Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. As of press time, there were 48 fatalities after the road collapse. https ://t.co/Fsa1XWv2Hr pic. twitter.com/JyBtMFWit1
— China. org.cn ( @chinaorgcn ) May 2, 2024
Four people died in southern China as a result of persistent rainstorms in late April, and a tornado that swept through Guangzhou, a city in southern China, injured dozens, and reportedly damaged more than 140 structures.
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