The bridge is located between the cities of Estreita and Agiarnopolis, connecting the two states. It was built over the Tocantins River.
Three trucks fell into the river as a result of the collapse of a road bridge on the highway between the Brazilian states of Tocantins and Maranhão. The G1 portal reported this on Sunday, December 22.
“Three trucks fell with the bridge structure,” the report said.
Traffic police representatives said three people were injured. Doctors could not save a person.
In addition, overturned trucks released sulfuric acid into the Tocantins River.
“A tanker truck carrying acid fell into the water,” officials said.
The Juscelino Cubitschek de Oliveira Bridge, opened in 1960, is made of reinforced concrete and is part of the BR-226 highway that connects the federal capital of Brasilia to Belem, the northern city that will host the UN Climate Change Conference next year .
A large section of the Carola Bridge, one of four bridges over the Elbe River, in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, collapsed on the night of September 11. The collapse occurred around 3 am. There was no one on the bridge, so no one was killed.
Two people were injured as a result of the collapse of a road bridge onto a railway in Dzhankoy district in the north of temporarily occupied Crimea.
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