Overview

• The bridge’s arch section gave way around 3 a.m. local time after a steel cable snapped, sending workers into the Yellow River in Qinghai.
• State media later reported six dead and ten missing, revising an earlier tally that put fatalities at seven.
• People’s Daily said 15 workers and a project manager were on the site when the failure occurred.
• The Ministry of Emergency Management dispatched a task force to coordinate searches and opened an investigation, with hundreds of rescuers mobilised, according to Xinhua.
• The structure lies between Jianzha and Hualong counties and is described as the world’s largest-span double-track continuous steel truss arch railway bridge.