{"id":36479,"date":"2025-11-11T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36479\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:13:12","slug":"chinas-hongqi-bridge-collapses-in-river-months-after-opening-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/36479\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Hongqi bridge collapses in river, months after opening: video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2,500-foot bridge partially collapsed in China following a landslide on the mountain where it was built.<\/p>\n<p>The Hongqi Bridge was only just completed earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>It was part of a highway that links Sichuan and the nation\u2019s heartland with\u00a0Tibet.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56054688;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37636109\" width=\"331\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viral-footage-captured-moment-entire-115218201.jpg\" alt=\"Mudslide collapsing part of a bridge into a green river.\" class=\"wp-image-37636109\"  \/>The bridge was reopened only months before its collapse. X<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56054688;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37636108\" width=\"331\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/viral-footage-captured-moment-entire-115218199.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge collapsing into water, surrounded by a cloud of dust.\" class=\"wp-image-37636108\"  \/>The bridge, which connects China to disputed Tibet, collapsed into a pile of concrete dust and rubble. X<\/p>\n<p>Harrowing video of the incident shows the landslide pounding rubble onto the bridge, with the span collapsing under the weight and impact.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the bridge appeared to fall into the river that the bridge was built across.<\/p>\n<p>The destruction sent dust and debris flying across the mountains, located in China\u2019s southwestern province of Sichuan.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Local officials said police in Maerkang shut down traffic on Monday afternoon after noticing cracks on the nearby slopes and roads above the bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The conditions only got worse on Tuesday, leading to the massive landslide that took out the bridge, according to the local government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hongqi bridge was completed earlier this year to create an easier connection between Sichuan and the Tibetan Plateau.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2,500-foot bridge partially collapsed in China following a landslide on the mountain where it was built. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[827,17990,9,11,10,21401,1076],"class_list":["post-36479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-china","tag-disaster","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-tibet","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}