Jakarta, June 7 (DPA) At least eight people were killed and four were missing after a bridge collapsed in Indonesia’s Aceh province, media reports said Monday.
The accident occurred Sunday when around 30 people were on the wooden-plank suspension bridge that broke in Gayo Luwes district, sending several of them into a river that swept them away, police said.
Police suspected overloading caused one of the bridge’s ropes break, detik.com online news reported.
Many of the people on the bridge were children under the age of 12 who were watching a traditional ceremony conducted by indigenous leaders, the reports said.
Eight bodies had been found and rescue workers continued searching for four people reported missing. Several children were injured.
