Posted on 09/01/2007 3:51:42 PM PDT by RDTF
A new overpass bridge collapsed in the southern city of Karachi on Saturday, killing at least four people and crushing vehicles under mounds of debris, officials said. Mayor Mustafa Kamal said officials were using heavy machinery and bulldozers to try to rescue injured people trapped in vehicles when the 330-foot-long curved section of the overpass crashed onto a road below.
Azhar Faruqi, the city police chief, said authorities had taken two bodies to a hospital, while another two bodies could be seen inside a crushed car. At least five people were injured.
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
The bridge had just been inaugurated by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in August. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz expressed concern over the quality of the construction and said an investigation would be launched to determine the reasons the structure collapsed.
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It’s Bush’s fault!!!!
Bush’s fault...
Now if Bin Laden would be trapped under the bridge it would be Obama’s fault./s
So who should be surprised when this is occuring in the USA? Here’s one of my states finer moments-
In 1982, with the bridge two-thirds complete, a 150-foot (46 m) long, 6,700-ton (6,070 metric tonnes) segment was not properly counterbalanced and sank five feet (1.5 m) out of alignment while rising 3.5 feet (1.1 m) on the other end, cracking a pier footing in the process.
Once repairs were made, a new contractor was hired to complete the bridge once the initial contractor and the state agreed to terminate their contract in exchange for both sides dropping their lawsuits over the accident. The new contractor developed a method of heating the concrete to allow construction during the winter. However, on some cold days these new sections could not be properly sealed against water infiltration, eventually leading to spalling as the water froze and expanded.
Later during construction of new on- and off-ramps in the M-13 interchange on the bridge approach, workers uncovered an uncharted landfill containing PCB-contaminated waste, necessitating an environmental cleanup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilwaukee_Bridge
Beat me to it, but let me elaborate. The collapse was clearly caused by global warming which Karl Rove and Bush started to help their friends at Halliburton and Big Bad Oil.
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