Two dead, three missing after ship hits Lixinsha Bridge near China’s Guangzhou, sending cars into water

Images on CCTV showed an empty container barge lodged between two columns of the Lixinsha Bridge with part of the bridge’s two-lane road deck missing. - PHOTO: ANDREW19751110/X via The Straits Times/ANN

GUANGZHOU (Reuters): Two people were killed and three others missing after a barge collided with a bridge over a river in China’s Pearl River Delta region near the city of Guangzhou on Thursday (Feb 22), causing part of it to break off and some vehicles to plunge into the water, state-owned CCTV reported.

Five vehicles, including a motorbike, were involved in the accident. Two of the cars plunged into the river while the others fell onto the vessel, a preliminary investigation has found.