AT least ten people were killed Monday after a bridge collapsed near Bogota, Colombia, according to the country’s Civil Defense authorities. Known as the Chirajara bridge, the structure was under construction and not operational at the time of the collapse. “The victims are construction workers who were working on the project’s drainage,” the Colombian Civil Defense said in a statement. A search and rescue mission is underway to locate additional missing persons, the Colombian Civil Defense said in a statement. “All my solidarity with relatives of the victims,” President Santos said in an official tweet.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 16, 2018 00:00 UTC