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Bridge collapse kills 2 in Indonesia

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IANS Jakarta

Rescuers discovered the bodies of two truck drivers and were searching for other missing people after a bridge fell down in Indonesia's East Java province on Tuesday, a disaster management agency official said.

Three trucks and one motorcycle plunged into a river when the bridge situated in Tuban sub-district suddenly collapsed at 11 a.m., the National Disaster Management Agency's spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Xinhua news agency.

However, he did not elaborate about the other drivers of the vehicles and the riders of the motorcycle.

Search and rescue operations were underway.

--IANS

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First Published: Apr 17 2018 | 3:42 PM IST

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