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Bridge Collapse in MINNEAPOLIS

Workers search for bodies in bridge debris
The Associated Press
Officials warn toll to rise above 4; divers struggle with current, low visibility.

Bridge collapse a wake-up call for politicians
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. politicians on Thursday treated the collapse of a highway bridge that killed or injured dozens of people as a jarring wake-up call to fix the nation’s aging roads and bridges, but experts have been sounding the alarm for years with limited success.

Four die as hundreds of cars are caught in bridge collapse
RICHARD LUSCOMBE Scotsman.com News
SURVIVORS of the Minneapolis bridge disaster yesterday spoke of their horror at watching cars ahead of them plunge from the collapsing structure and into the Mississippi River.

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