School children injured in Finland bridge collapse


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 May 2023

Rescue workers are seen near the collapsed pedestrian bridge in which around 27 people, a majority of them children, were injured in Espoo, Finland, May 11, 2023. Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari via REUTERS

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Twenty-seven people, most of them teenage school children, were injured on Thursday when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in the Finnish city of Espoo, just outside the capital Helsinki, rescue services said.

The injuries were not life threatening, they added.

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