MIAMI UNIVERSITY BRIDGE COLLAPSE KILLS AT LEAST 4

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At least four people have died after a university bridge collapsed just days after it was installed in Florida at around 1:30pm local time, according to the Miami Herald.


The £8million pedestrian bridge was opened last Saturday to make it safer for students to cross a busy, eight-lane highway to Florida International University.
It was installed in just six hours using a revolutionary method called Accelerated Bridge Construction which aimed to keep disruption to traffic to a minimum.


The bridge was intended to withstand a Category 5 hurricane and stand for 100 years. The bridge collapsed as around eight cars were waiting at a red light underneath.

Unconfirmed reports suggest as many as ten people have died and eight have been hospitalised.



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