{"id":5555,"date":"2025-08-23T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-bridge-collapse-kills-at-least-12-construction-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:04:11","slug":"chinese-bridge-collapse-kills-at-least-12-construction-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-bridge-collapse-kills-at-least-12-construction-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese bridge collapse kills at least 12 construction workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tBEIJING: The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and left four others missing, state media reports said.<br>Aerial photos from the official Xinhua News Agency show a large section missing from the bridge&rsquo;s curved aquamarine arch. A bent section of the bridge deck hangs downward into the Yellow River below.<br>Sixteen workers were on the bridge in northwest China&rsquo;s Qinghai province when a steel cable snapped about 3 a.m. Friday during a tensioning operation, Xinhua said. Boats, a helicopter and robots were being used in the search for the missing.<br>The bridge is 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) long and its deck is 55 meters (180 feet) above the surface of the river below, the English-language China Daily newspaper said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                       <!-- \n                        \n\n<div id=\"POSTQUARE_WIDGET_122392\"><\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub>Chinese bridge collapse kills at least 12 construction workers<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and left four others missing, state media reports said.Aerial photos from the official Xinhua News Agency show a large section missing from the bridge&rsquo;s curved aquamarine arch. A bent section of the bridge deck hangs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-bridge-collapse-kills-at-least-12-construction-workers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Chinese bridge collapse kills at least 12 construction workers&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}