Finland, a pedestrian bridge collapses: 27 injured, many children

A pedestrian bridge a espooIn Finlandcollapsed, resulting in about 27 injuries, including 24 children. The little ones were part of a school group on a trip. Fifteen of the wounded were transported to different hospitals in the Helsinki region.

According to local media, children take part
Primary school from Kalasatama (Helsinki) and have at least fallen since then
five meters the height. The reported injuries vary in severity, but none of the people involved is life-threatening.

“The collapsed footbridge was a temporary footbridge erected at a construction site,” they told the West Uusimaa Relief Department in Espoo, near the capital Elsinki. The boys involved were on their way to the Emma Art Museum in Tapiola.