Overpass collapses, crushing bus in World Cup host city in Brazil

Firefighters and policemen work at the site where several vehicles were crushed by a viaduct that collapsed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on July 3, 2014. An unfinished overpass collapsed on vehicles in Brazil's southeastern World Cup city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 19, officials said.

By Javier Panzar

July 3, 2014 12:29 PM PT

An overpass collapsed in the World Cup host city Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on Thursday.

At least one person was dead and 10 were injured, according to Brazilian media outlet Globo.com, which cited fire officials. Tweets showed the collapse, which pinned and partially crushed a vehicle.

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4:05 p.m.: This post was updated with video of the collapse.

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Javier Panzar

Assistant editor Javier Panzar oversees California audience engagement for the Los Angeles Times’ California section. He previously worked as a digital editor on the News Desk. Before that, he was a reporter covering state and regional politics as well as breaking news in California. Panzar started at The Times as an intern and then a MetPro fellow in 2014. He was born and raised in Oakland. His reporting has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and UC Berkeley’s independent student newspaper, the Daily Californian.

Overpass collapses, crushing bus in World Cup host city in Brazil

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