“A big boom”: a bridge collapses on a metro construction site in Toulouse, at least one dead and several injured in absolute emergency

| March 4, 2024 | Health | No Comments

“A big boom”: a bridge collapses on a metro construction site in Toulouse, at least one dead and several injured in absolute emergency

Les sapeurs-pompiers interviennent à Toulouse après l'effondrement d'un pont. (illustration) MAXPPP

Ce lundi 4 mars 2024, un pont en construction s'est effondré sur un chantier du métro au sud de Toulouse. L'accident aurait fait un mort et plusieurs blessés.

The drama unfolded this Monday, late in the afternoon. Firefighters from SDIS 31 intervene in Labège, bordering Toulouse, after a bridge under construction collapsed on the Tisséo site (transport network) of the extension of line B of the metro, report our colleagues from La Dépêche.

"A big boom"

Unfortunately, several victims have been reported: at least one dead and two injured in an absolute emergency. The assessment is provisional for the moment, according to the local daily. A major device is deployed on site: 53 firefighters and 20 vehicles as well as a dog team are currently continuing the search, specifies France Bleu< /em>.

Two gendarmes who were patrolling in the area who would have intervened first to help the victims. It was then that they discovered four people on the ground, who happened to be construction workers, including the deceased victim.

If the circumstances of the tragedy still need to be clarified, the first findings allow us to say that "it's scaffolding was created collapsed and which dragged the structure into its fall", details La Dépêche. "We heard a big boom in the parking lot, there was smoke everywhere", indicates a witness present at the scene. A psychological help unit was also set up due to many people in shock.

For now, the disaster area should be avoided, indicates the mayor of Labège. The public prosecutor Samuel Vuelta-Simon went to the scene.

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