Bangkok motorway collapses during construction, at least 1 dead
- At least 1 person died and 8 were injured after a massive metal girder on the Lat Krabang Tollway project crumpled to the ground late on Monday afternoon
- A clip shared online by a rescue worker shows the aftermath of the collapse, with sirens blaring as shocked residents and bystanders survey the damage
At least one person has died after a huge construction girder over a busy road collapsed in the Thai capital Bangkok, police said on Monday, with videos of the terrifying incident rapidly shared online.
The massive metal girder on the Lat Krabang Tollway construction project to the east of the city crumpled to the ground late on Monday afternoon, catching pedestrians and drivers unaware.
It is part of a project to build elevated highways in an attempt to ease the city’s notoriously congested traffic.
In a video shared by the country’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, the enormous metal platform – connected to unfinished parts of the highway – wobbles and then plummets to the earth.
At least one person had died with as many as eight injured, police said.
“We do not know yet what caused the accident,” Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt told reporters late Monday at the scene.