"Investigation under way into fatal bridge collapse in northwest China’s Qinghai province", 24 Aug 2025 Four people remained missing on Sunday after a railway bridge collapsed in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai, killing 12 people. The central government has sent a task force to investigate the failure, which occurred on a section over the Yellow River at about 3am on Friday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The report said 16 workers were on the Jianzha Yellow River Super-large Bridge carrying out a tensioning operation when a steel cable snapped. [...] A surveillance video showed the central part of the bridge falling into the river, and sparks flying off the top of the bridge as the cable broke. [...] It has been described as the world’s largest-span double-track railway steel truss arch bridge. It is part of the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway, a line under construction to connect Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, with Xining, the capital of Qinghai. [...] Just two months ago, on June 14, the Qinghai Development and Reform Commission had declared that the China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group had completed construction of a temporary steel cable tower frame on the bridge. The commission said the bridge had a continuous steel truss arch design, with two cable tower frames that stood 100 metres tall and weighed 1,800 tonnes each. The structure had the longest span of its kind in the world, it said. [...]