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Members of the emergency services work at the site after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Espoo, Finland, May 11, 2023. /CFP
About 27 young people, most of them children, were injured after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Espoo, Finland, local authorities said in a statement on Thursday.
The accident happened at around 9:20 a.m. local time (0620 GMT) when wooden planks are believed to have given way, causing the youths to fall to the ground.
Helsinki hospital service HUS said "the injured belonged to a group of schoolchildren" and "the majority of the injuries are limb fractures."
Twenty-four of the injured have been transported to various hospitals in the region. "No one has life-threatening injuries," HUS said in a statement.
An investigation into the cause of the collapse is underway.
(With input from AFP)
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