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More bodies found in Vietnam bridge collapse, contractors summoned
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 28 - 09 - 2007


Search and rescue workers pulled more bodies from
the rubble of a collapsed bridge project that killed at least 46
construction workers in southern Vietnam as the project's contractors
were summoned by police to explain the disaster, officials said
Friday, according to dpa.
The search was made easier Friday by the halt of rains that had
hampered rescue efforts, though officials admitted the focus had
shifted to recovering bodies and hope of finding survivors had faded
two days after the collapse Wednesday.
"Five more bodies were found last night. It has stopped raining
and we are continuing to search," said Duong Van Dep, a senior police
officer at the scene of the disaster in Vinh Long province, 170
kilometres sounth-west of Ho Chi Minh City.
The official toll on Friday was 46 dead and 87 people injured -
revised down from earlier estimates from Vietnamese officials, Dep
said, because some bodies had been counted twice.
Funerals were held for some of the victims on Friday in Vietnam's
largest construction disaster in years. More than 250 construction
workers were on a section of the Can Tho Bridge project when it
collapsed at Wednesday morning, sending tons of concrete tumbling at
least 30 metres to the ground below.
Hundreds of rescue workers were trying to cut through slabs of
reinforced concrete and mountains of twisted steel to recover the
remaining bodies.
"The scene of the accident is horrible," Dep said
Vietnam's government website reported that police had summoned the
Japanese and Vietnamese contractors for the 343-million-dollar Can
Tho Bridge, touted as Vietnam's longest cable bridge and set for
completion next year, to explain the collapse.
No official cause has been named, but investigators were focusing
on the scaffolding that had been holding up the 100-metre-long
section of the bridge that collapsed.
Construction on the 2.7-kilometre bridge project began in 2004
with Japanese funding.
The Can Tho Bridge was designed to offer an alternative to river
ferries that now carry some 87,000 passengers and 20,000 cars daily
across the Hau River, a tributary of the Mekong, between Can Tho and
Vinh Long provinces.


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