School children injured in Finland bridge collapse

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.