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Rescue workers remove a body from the rubble where a wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami.
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In this March 16, 2018 file photo crushed cars are shown under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge near Florida International University in the Miami area. A federal workplace safety agency says engineers had knowledge of extensive cracking and failed to order to close a street and shore up a pedestrian bridge before it collapsed and killed six people at a Miami university last year. On Tuesday, June 11, 2019 a report by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration concluded the size of the cracks warranted the street be shut down immediately.
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In this March 15, 2018, photo, emergency personnel respond after a brand-new pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway at Florida International University in Miami. Nineteen-year-old Richie Humble says he's been haunted by flashbacks and anxiety attacks ever since the bridge fell on the car he was riding in with a fellow student, killing her and five other people. Humble spoke to reporters Monday, April 2, saying the March 15 bridge collapse caused a fracture in his back, as well as knee and neck problems.
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The bridge fell on the car he was riding in, killing six people including the college friend driving their vehicle.
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A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue firefighter takes pictures after a brand new, 950-ton pedestrian bridge collapsed in front of Florida International University, Thursday, March 15, 2018, in Miami. Florida officials said Thursday that several people have been found dead in the rubble of a collapsed South Florida pedestrian bridge where the frantic search for any survivors continued past nightfall.
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Stress Test Preceded Bridge Collapse
The Miami bridge was placed on Saturday and collapsed five days later.
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In this June 8, 2016 photo, men work in the new underground subway tunnel below Ipanema neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Last-minute construction on the line has created fears after an April bike lane collapse that plunged two joggers to their deaths. An ocean-front section of the lane, an Olympic beautification project inaugurated in January, collapsed into a heap of broken cement when struck by a large wave.
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An expansion that is supposed to transport hundreds of thousands of athletes and fans is not done - and the Olympic Games are seven weeks away.
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