From Tianya:
Xinhua News: Around 5 o’clock on the 17th, an elevated road on Hongqi Road of Zhuzhou City in Hunan province collapsed, and at present the number of casualties is unknown.
Here are some pictures that were posed on various BBS forums incuding Sina, NetEase, and Mop:
The government said four people died.
Comments from Tianya:
唯一的老四:
I passed by.
This kind of thing happens plenty of time.
If not too many people die, the central government won’t care.
救国军:
Modern society’s construction/buildings are all trash. Modern people’s construction are worse than the construction/buildings of people in the past.
BigMonster:
This is definitely not a tofu dregs building [poorly constructed buildings that do not meet regulations], this elevated road had a mishap during demolition, the public security bureau, fire department, traffic police and various major hospitals were all present to help the rescue.
不快乐的想法:
These days it seems like there is nowhere that is safe. Walking across crosswalks is not safe, traveling on motorways is also not safe, what is going on?
goya0818:
This is not tofu dregs, this elevated road was in the process of being demolished
so there must have been a problem with the work process
but the reason is unclear.The elevated road crushed 22 vehicles
include several public buses
because it just happened to be rush hour time.Everyone please pray for those hurt under the elevated road.
yuxiang0826:
3 public buses were crushed, how could there only be 4 [dead].
Television/news channels, keep lying. Continue on lying.
There are at least 100+ and above.
Nick走天涯:
Very saddening!
I have been to Zhuzhou several times before, felt that city as pretty good.However I bet the Hangzhou government will be able to breathe a little easier.
topmarques:
Although this was not tofu dregs building, this construction company clearly knew this elevated road was in a busy commercial area, completely did not implement safety measures, and completely did not consider the common people’s lives and property. Whenever they have something a little like success, they rush to report it in the news, but now that something bad has happened, how come we do not see the leadership anywhere? Aside from censoring and blocking information, what else do you guys know how to do?
xuegong:
The Zhuzhou government is continuously working hard…
…continuously working hard to censor and block information!!
广寒之西:
The government again wants to censor and block information, yet again this nonsense.
Not valuing human life, in the past when there was no internet the government would just not report, this time we cannot keep silent.
There must be an explanation by the relevant departments.
May the innocent rest in peace.
贫僧只爱周晓涵:
Speechess, blowing up one half, leaving on half, and since there were no danger warning signs, also no traffic police management, it was clearly waiting for a dangerous collapse! MLGBD, a bunch of people who only know how to eat other’s food and not do anything meaningful, all TMD with pig brains!
City construction in their eyes is just a trivial thing. If they want to demolish something they demolish something. If they want to build, they build. In my hometown, there was a road lined with trees and flowers, but then they chopped all the trees, pulled up on the grass, and completely TMD paved it with bricks! Why? Because the deputy mayor in charge of urban construction’s brother-in-law makes and sells bricks!!!
四级士官:
Looks like Sichuan’s “strong-willed bridge” [similar to "strong-willed pig"] is still good, the Tuojiang Bridge built during the Cultural Revolution, ater last year’s 5.12 earthquake was deemed to be a dangerous/unfit bridge by experts and was set to be demolished. However, after being filled with large amounts of TNT explosives, after being detonated, the bridge actually still stood, remaining upright.
Simply ironic, that a 60-year-old bridge could not be toppled by an earthquake and could not be detroyed by explosives.
风铃曲:
According to what a friend at the hospital said, that day around 8pm at night, the number of dead confirmed by the hospital was over 80 people, and Zhuzhou government saying only 4 dead is complete bullshit!!! The pictures you see are only the outermost row of cars that were crushed, there are two more rows inside, and amongst them is a #19 route public bus with all seats and standing space filled with passengers. After the incident happened, no survivors.
潜水4年多:
Comrades, please calm down…according to the latest report, no one from the Zhuzhou City committee, party, government, military, or various leadership and their wives were hurt from this accident. Those who died were only a few ordinary commoners, so there is no need to make a big deal over this engineering accident. It will disappear within a month from the public’s field of vision;
ypfreddie:
The mayor of a city once went into the countryside to inspect the work. On the road he encountered an old man who was over 70-years-old. The old man knelt in front of the mayor and said: Mayor, I want to join the party. Moved, the mayor said: You are so old, why do you want to join the party? The old man said: The Communist Party is good! Even with such corruption/rot it still has not collapsed. Truly too niu.
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