Three people have reportedly died and at least four were injured after a bridge set to be demolished in Mississippi collapsed on Wednesday, according to authorities.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (DOT) said the bridge was located on State Route 149 over the Strong River in Simpson County.
It collapsed in the afternoon in what the agency described as a “work site accident.”
The bridge had been closed to traffic since Sept. 18 as part of a bridge replacement project and the contractor had been in the process of demolishing it, the department said in a statement.
DOT acknowledged there had been fatalities as a result of the collapsed bridge but the department stopped short of specifying exactly how many people had died….