Cross the iron rope bridge – do you like the shaking?

The river flow seems low; there shouldn’t be any casualties, right?

Hehe, there are always those who like to play pranks in front of others to stand out. Hehe, that’s true – \"If you don’t do something stupid, you won’t die.\"

Some colleagues like it, and I expressed clear disgust

Hongya, Sichuan, February 14 (Liu Zhongjun) – At around 12:00 on the 14th, a steel cable bridge in Hongxing Village, Liujiang Town, Hongya County, Sichuan Province, collapsed accidentally, injuring 28 people to varying degrees; 7 of them were seriously injured. Fortunately, no deaths were reported. The bridge is a suspension bridge built for civilian use and managed by civilians; it was constructed in the 1960s, and its collapse was caused by the sudden rupture of the main steel cables. The reporter saw at the scene that the collapsed cable bridge was hanging at an angle. Ms. Zhao, who sells goods at the bridge entrance, told the reporter that on the first day of the lunar new year, many local residents and tourists came to visit. Around 12:00 p.m., while she was busy with her tasks, she suddenly heard screams and cries for help coming from the bridge. She looked up and saw that the iron chain bridge, which had been fine just a moment ago, had collapsed. All the pedestrians on the bridge fell into the Yangcun River. Local residents and tourists who were walking in the area, upon seeing the bridge collapse, quickly rushed down to the riverbank to carry out rescue efforts. Ms. Zhao said that the people and tourists on site some carried and some lifted the victims, quickly providing assistance to those who had fallen off the bridge and those who were injured. Yin Hong, the mayor of Liujiang Town in Hongya, told reporters that the cable bridge was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it is 65 meters long and 10 meters high, spanning the Yangcun River. It was repaired three times, in the early 1990s, in 2005, and in 2009, and serves as a bridge for general civilian use in production and daily life. Ding Suqun, who is being treated at Hongya County People’s Hospital, said that on that day she and her friends went to Liujiang for a trip. As it was the first day of the New Year, there were many people there. She and her friends followed the crowd onto the cable bridge; once on the bridge, they saw that there were many people there, and from time to time, some visitors were swinging around on the bridge. For some reason, she suddenly fell. After the accident, she was rescued by her classmates and local residents, and then taken to the hospital. Upon receiving the accident report, the local authorities promptly activated their emergency response plan. The party committee and **key leaders led relevant departments and personnel from public security, health, safety supervision, and other fields to the scene to carry out rescue efforts. Teams were established for medical rescue, accident investigation, and post-incident handling to carry out their tasks; the details of the accident were reported throughout the county, and a thorough search was conducted for safety hazards across the region, with on-site supervision measures put in place to ensure the safety of people’s lives and property. Based on preliminary analysis of the on-site investigation, the cause of the collapse was resonance generated by the shaking and oscillating of pedestrians; the intensity of this resonance exceeded the deflection limit of the steel cables, resulting in the breakage of one of the main cables and a chain reaction that led to the overturning. The specific causes of the accident are still under further investigation. At present, some of those with milder injuries have been discharged and returned home.

This needs to be distinguished: if it’s a historic site, it shouldn’t be shaken; but if it was built specifically for shaking and for seeking thrills, then go ahead and shake it: lol