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August 15, 2018

Collapsed Italian bridge was about to get $23M safety fix

  • The pre-stressed concrete bridge's design has been criticized in the past.
    • By COLLEEN BARRY and DANICA KIRKA
    Associated Press

    MILAN — A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 15 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling into a heap of concrete and twisted steel.

    Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte called it “an immense tragedy ... inconceivable in a modern system like ours, a modern country.”


     
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