At least four killed after new bridge collapses in South Korea (update)

Rescue teams searching for missing workers after a bridge collapsed at an expressway construction site in Anseong on Feb 25, 2025. Two people were killed and seven injured after a bridge collapsed at an expressway construction site in South Korea on February 25, authorities said. - AFP

SEOUL: At least four people have been killed after a bridge under construction collapsed in South Korea on Tuesday (Feb 25), news agency Yonhap reported.

Six people were injured in the accident, some 80km south of Seoul, five of them seriously.

Yonhap said five 50-metre-long steel beams holding up the bridge collapsed one by one as workers used a crane to move beams between piers. Those killed or injured were working beneath the bridge.

The workers were constructing a section of the Seoul-Sejong road expressway. - dpa