ESPOO: Some 27 young people, mostly children, were injured in Finland on Thursday (May 11) when a temporary footbridge near a construction site collapsed and they fell several metres onto a road, officials said. The accident occurred at around 9.20 am (2.20pm, Singapore time) in Espoo, near the capital, He
ESPOO: Some 27 young people, mostly children, were injured in Finland on Thursday when a temporary footbridge near a construction site collapsed and they fell several metres onto a road, officials said.
"There has been no indication of any risk of paralysis but there are some head injuries involved as well," HUS medical director Eero Hirvensalo told reporters. "I saw the bridge was no longer up and many people on the ground," Jaakko Markkula, who lives on the fifth floor of a building near where the accident took place, told AFP.
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