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A glass bridge shatters, killing one tourist and injuring three others [1]
['Carla Sinclair']
Date: 2023-10-27
As four tourists took photographs on a popular glass bridge in Indonesia on Wednesday, two floor panels suddenly shattered, killing one and injuring the other three. In total, 11 people had been standing on the Geong — a 30-foot-high bridge in Central Java — at the time of the accident.
"Two of the victims were able to cling to the bridge's frame while two others plunged to the ground, one of whom was pronounced dead shortly after the collapse," reports the Daily Beast.
Sadly, many tourists who had visited the bridge since it opened last April had expressed concerns online over the bridge's safety, but the bridge's management had neglected to look into it.
Video below, posted by KOMPAS TV, shows the visitors on the bridge before it shattered, and then the aftermath (but spares us the tragic details).
From The Jakarta Post:
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