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Genoa bridge collapse: Search for injured after 'immense tragedy'

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Genoa bridge collapse: Search for injured after 'immense tragedy'.  The dead include at least one child, reports the Corriere newspaper, quoting the Interior Ministry, which has confirmed five people are seriously injured. Rescue workers say about 20 vehicles were involved when a 200m (650ft) section of the Morandi Bridge collapsed at about 11.30am during a sudden and violent storm. The vehicles plunged around 50m (164ft) from the bridge as it crossed a river, railway tracks and buildings in an industrial area below. A fire service spokesperson told AFP that the bridge had mostly fallen on rail tracks below, taking "cars and trucks" with it
The Italian Ambulance Service says there are "dozens of dead", local news agency Adnkronos reported. Two people have been rescued alive from the rubble - one has been flown to hospital by helicopter, ANSA news agency reported. Pictures of the aftermath showed two large white lorries overturned and smashed into pieces, lying upturned with their wheels in the air, while rescue workers searched the area, which is covered with huge chunks of concrete and metal. Another picture showed a white car flattened as if it had been in a crusher, one of its doors squeezed outwards and its windscreen missing. Video showing parts of the structure falling has been posted to Twitter by local police and what appears to be flashes of electricity are visible as concrete columns shatter and drop into water. Around 200 firefighters are responding to the accident and have told the Associated Press they are concerned about gas lines.
A witness told Italia television he saw "eight or nine" vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed in what he called an "apocalyptic scene". Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said in a tweet that he was "following with great apprehension what seems like an immense tragedy". Video captured the sound of a man screaming: "Oh God, oh, God." Other pictures included one of a green truck that had stopped on the bridge just yards short of the gaping hole in the road surface. The bridge is part of the A10 toll road which runs into the port city.
Restructuring work on the bridge, which was constructed in the 1960s, was carried out in 2016. The collapse is believed to have been caused by a structural weakness, the ANSA news agency said. Uk Politics World News GE2018 Brexit G20 OJW Donations Welcome. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DPK4PYVL8ZSZN

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