A section of the bridge under demolition South Korea A collapse in the capital, Seoul, on Tuesday killed three people conducting safety checks and injured three others, fire and city officials said.
Television footage showed emergency workers conducting a search and rescue operation as a long section of the structure collapsed into the street below, near a railway crossing in the city centre. Seoul.
A Seoul city official said workers noticed that part of the structure had sunk slightly while cutting the concrete slabs and stopped the demolition process early Tuesday to check safety.
The section collapsed on Tuesday afternoon while safety inspectors were inside the support structure, the official said.
A fire official said all of the dead and wounded were the city’s top public works officials and a private sector expert who was conducting the inspection.
