China News Service, Zhuhai, July 25th (Reporter Deng Yuanwen) At 9:25 on July 25, a box girder collapse accident occurred in the construction section of the Jinhai Bridge on the Zhuji Urban Rail Transit Railway, causing 5 construction workers to lose contact with the sea.

As of 17:41, rescuers found two people who fell into the water in the underwater box girder of the accident site and confirmed that they were killed. Relevant rescue work is still proceeding in an intense and orderly manner.

  After the accident, the main leaders of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government rushed to the scene to organize rescue operations as soon as possible.

The Guangdong Provincial Department of Emergency Management, the Provincial Department of Transportation, and the Provincial SASAC immediately organized forces to rush to the scene of the accident to guide rescue, and quickly dispatched professional technical forces and large-scale machinery and equipment from surrounding cities to participate in the search and rescue work.

  It is reported that in the future, the on-site rescue headquarters will go all out to carry out search and rescue work at all costs, find other people who fell into the water as soon as possible, and do a good job in the aftermath of family members to appease.

The follow-up rescue situation will be notified to the society in time.

  It is understood that the construction unit of the Zhuji Urban Rail Jinhai Bridge construction section is Guangdong Guangzhu Intercity Rail Transit Co., Ltd., the survey and design unit is China Railway Fourth Survey and Design Institute Group Co., Ltd., and the construction unit is China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd. , The supervision unit is Tianjin New Asia-Pacific Engineering Construction Supervision Co., Ltd.

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