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27 people injured in Finland when a temporary footbridge collapsed and fell onto a road

On Thursday (May 11), a temporary footbridge near a construction site in Finland collapsed, causing around 27 people, mostly children, to fall several meters onto a road and sustain varying degrees of injuries.

According to a statement from the Western Uusimaa rescue department in Espoo, which is near the capital Helsinki, the majority of those injured were minors.

The Helsinki Hospital Authority also released a statement confirming that many of the injured were schoolchildren.

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