A flash flood may have played a major role in the collapse of a section of the St Ignatius Bridge, Region 9 which gave way under the weight of heavy equipment and the company to which the equipment belongs is likely to bear at least part of the cost of repairs.
On Wednesday evening, a heavy-duty truck which was fetching an excavator broke a section of the bridge as it was making its way to Lethem. According to the Ministry of Public Works, the truck, which was part of a two-truck caravan, damaged a 30-metre section of the bridge.
Several concrete beams which supported the bridge were also reportedly