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  • Indonesia - 4 dead & scores missing in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan bridge collapse

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ? Search-and-rescue teams were looking for survivors Sunday after a busy bridge collapsed in central Indonesia, killing at least four people and leaving scores missing as a bus, cars and motorcycles crashed into the river below.

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    Re: Indonesia - 4 dead & scores missing in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan bridge collapse

    11 dead after 'Indonesia's Golden Gate bridge' collapses

    At least 11 people have died after an Indonesian bridge, built to resemble San Francisco's Golden Gate, collapsed, hurling dozens of vehicles into a river.

    9:53AM GMT 28 Nov 2011

    More than 30 people are believed to be missing after the 720-metre-long bridge over the Mahakam river collapsed.


    "The number of people killed were 11," East Kalimantan province's search and rescue agency head Harmoni Adi told reporters.

    National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, who earlier put the toll at 10, said that bodies were washing up on the river banks.


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