Controlled blast fells bridge that claimed the lives of 10 construction workers.
Colombian authorities have destroyed the remains of a cable bridge that partially collapsed during construction earlier this year, claiming the lives of more than a dozen construction workers.
The Chirajara Bridge is located on the road that connects Bogota with the city of Villavicencio.
Some 200 kilos of explosives, 3,000 meters of detonating cord, 30 detonators were used in the implosion. Eleven experts supervised, reported the local group overseeing the work, Concesionaria Vial de los Andes (Coviandes).
A video of the controlled blast is featured immediately below, together with an amateur film that captured the moment the bridge originally collapsed in January this year:
