Overview

• The partial collapse occurred around 3 a.m. Friday at the Jianzha railway bridge construction site in Qinghai province.
• CCTV released video showing the steel arch’s central section giving way and plunging into the Yellow River.
• Rescue operations continue with more than 806 personnel, 91 vehicles, 27 boats, a helicopter, and five robots deployed, according to provincial officials and Xinhua.
• People’s Daily reported that 15 workers and a project manager were in the most affected area when the section failed.
• The bridge is part of the Sichuan–Qinghai rail corridor and had been billed as a record-setting double‑track steel‑arch crossing, a high‑profile project now under scrutiny over construction safety.