Overview

• Casualty reports vary across state outlets, with figures shifting from six dead and 10 missing to 12 dead and four missing as search efforts continue.
• CCTV footage shows the central arch section suddenly giving way and plunging into the Yellow River in Qinghai’s Jianzha area.
• People’s Daily reported that 15 workers and a project manager were on the structure when a rope snapped at about 3 a.m. local time.
• Rescue operations have deployed 806 personnel, 91 vehicles, 27 boats, a helicopter, and five robots, and hospitals opened expedited treatment channels.
• The bridge is part of the Sichuan–Qinghai Railway and is described by state media as the world’s largest-span double-track continuous steel truss arch and the first of its kind to span the Yellow River.