A pedestrian bridge has collapsed at Florida International University in the Miami area. Florida Highway Patrol said several people had been killed and at least four injured. At least six injured people were taken away from the scene and eight vehicles were trapped in the bridge wreckage, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said. The 950-ton span fell Thursday afternoon at the university’s main Miami-area campus. Witnesses to the pedestrian bridge collapse on Florida International University Miami campus say they “didn’t hear anything, didn’t see anything, it just fell.” https://t.co/3kekuhfTgxpic.twitter.com/pofrpR7U94— ABC News (@ABC) March 15, 2018 Witness Lynell Collins told CNN: “I was about to make a right turn, a few seconds before the bridge, and the whole thing came down. “I was freaking out. I got out of my car, and me and some other people, we started trying to help but we couldnt really go under the rubble. Somebody we helped out said his family was still inside and he couldn’t get them out. I saw two trucks completely crushed.” He said it was still a construction scene and nobody had been walking across the bridge Isabella Carrasco and her boyfriend had driven under the bridge just before it collapsed. She told CNN: “We heard a bang behind us. The cars were completely crushed under a lot of debris. I saw about five or six that were completely crushed but there could have been more I couldn’t see. “One woman was alive. The bridge hit the back of her car and she was able to get out. Another person was able to get out and they were performing CPR. “There were a lot of students a lot of pedestrians. Thank God it’s spring break so there was less traffic.” The collapsed bridge Credit: Miami Herald Tiona Page, a witness, …read more
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