As 4 vacationers took images on a preferred glass bridge in Indonesia on Wednesday, two flooring panels all of the sudden shattered, killing one and injuring the opposite three. In complete, 11 folks had been standing on the Geong — a 30-foot-high bridge in Central Java — on the time of the accident.
“Two of the victims had been capable of cling to the bridge’s body whereas two others plunged to the bottom, one in all whom was pronounced lifeless shortly after the collapse,” studies the Each day Beast.
Sadly, many vacationers who had visited the bridge because it opened final April had expressed considerations on-line over the bridge’s security, however the bridge’s administration had uncared for to look into it.
Video under, posted by KOMPAS TV, reveals the guests on the bridge earlier than it shattered, after which the aftermath (however spares us the tragic particulars).
From The Jakarta Put up:
…[T]he glass flooring on a bridge that shattered at a vacationer vacation spot within the Limpakuwus pine forest in Banyumas regency, Central Java, this week was extraordinarily skinny, measuring only one.2 centimeters. Comr. Agus Supriadi, head of the legal investigation unit on the Banyumas Metropolis Police, stated on Thursday that along with the skinny glass layer, the on-site investigation had discovered potential negligence by the administration of the bridge at The Geong vacationer attraction.
Comr. Agus Supriadi, head of the legal investigation unit on the Banyumas Metropolis Police, stated on Thursday that along with the skinny glass layer, the on-site investigation had discovered potential negligence by the administration of the bridge at The Geong vacationer attraction.
“The employees who performed the testing lacked experience in building. They relied on their expertise within the tourism trade,” he stated.
The investigators discovered that the bridge had not been correctly maintained and that there had been no security testing. Moreover, there have been no security nets across the bridge, no warning indicators and no security directions. The ticket attendants additionally lacked information of customer security procedures.