{"id":836232,"date":"2025-03-23T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/1-dead-in-highway-bridge-collapse-in-belgium-world-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T19:12:09","slug":"1-dead-in-highway-bridge-collapse-in-belgium-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/1-dead-in-highway-bridge-collapse-in-belgium-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in highway bridge collapse in Belgium, World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ao-container\"><main><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/media.asiaone.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_top_image\/public\/original_images\/Mar2025\/0307_bridge%20collapse.jpg?itok=qgD557I4\" alt=\"1 dead in highway bridge collapse in Belgium\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One man died and two people were injured when a highway bridge under demolition collapsed near the town of La Louviere, southern Belgium, authorities said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span><span><span><span>PUBLISHED ON<\/span><b>March 07, 2025 6:27 AM<\/b><\/span><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BRUSSELS \u2014\u00a0One man died and two people were injured when a highway bridge under demolition collapsed near the town of La Louviere, southern Belgium, authorities said on Thursday (March 6).<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jacques Gobert told Reuters that one worker \u2014\u00a0who was on the steel bridge as it collapsed \u2014\u00a0had died, while two others were injured as the deck collapsed onto a barge anchored underneath to collect rubble from the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge \u2014\u00a0which was closed for traffic during the demolition works \u2014\u00a0was part of a two-bridge crossing on the E42 highway over the &#8220;Canal du Centre&#8221; canal and was being demolished with a view to being reconstructed next year.<\/p>\n<p>The other bridge had been renovated in recent years, a spokesperson for the Sofico Wallonie local government highways agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities closed traffic on the renovated bridge following the collapse, which happened around 1400 CET (1300 GMT). By 1800 CET, traffic was reopened, with the renovated bridge accommodating car traffic in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:715025]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Share this article<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<p>This website is best viewed using the latest versions of web browsers.<\/p>\n<p> Bong Mcnaught<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/world\/1-dead-highway-bridge-collapse-belgium\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man died and two people were injured when a highway bridge under demolition collapsed near the town of La Louviere, southern Belgium, authorities said on Thursday. PUBLISHED ON March 07, 2025 6:27 AM BRUSSELS \u2014\u00a0One man died and two people were injured when a highway bridge under demolition collapsed near the town of La<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794,25311],"tags":[17676,94909],"class_list":["post-836232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bridge","category-highway","tag-bridge","tag-highway"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}