Tens of thousands of tourists, and 20,000 musicians and dancers participate every year at the colorful four day carnival in Bolivians mountain city of Oruro.
Yesterday this spectacular was a sad scene after an overloaded metal footbridge collapsed during the opening ceremony and parade.
The bridge collapsed on a group of musicians and their spectators and killed four. More than 60 were injured.
The Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero said three of the dead were musicians.
Dozens were on the bridge when it collapsed and the normally festive, even raucous, parade of colorfully clad musicians and dancers became a funereal march.
WAS SIE AUS DIESEM ARTIKEL MITNEHMEN KÖNNEN:
- Dozens were on the bridge when it collapsed and the normally festive, even raucous, parade of colorfully clad musicians and dancers became a funereal march.
- The bridge collapsed on a group of musicians and their spectators and killed four.
- Tens of thousands of tourists, and 20,000 musicians and dancers participate every year at the colorful four day carnival in Bolivians mountain city of Oruro.
