At least 11 people have died after an Indonesian bridge, built to resemble San Francisco's Golden Gate, collapsed, hurling dozens of vehicles into a river. More than 30 people are believed to be missing after the 720-metre-long bridge over the Mahakam river collapsed.
"The number of people killed were 11," East Kalimantan province's search and rescue agency head Harmoni Adi told reporters.
National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, who earlier put the toll at 10, said that bodies were washing up on the river banks.
"Thirty-nine people have been injured and based on reports by the community, at least 33 are missing," he told AFP.
"It's difficult to know exactly how many are missing because we don't know how many vehicles and people fell when the bridge collapsed," he said adding there was "zero visibility" in the river which is up to 40 metres (yards) deep. |