Engineer who ended life was under investigation
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A SENIOR engineer who committed suicide on Friday was one of several people who were being investigated by police over a bridge collapse that occurred in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, local authorities said yesterday.
The engineer, a man surnamed Yang, jumped off the eighth floor of the Mianyang Transportation Bureau after being asked to participate in an investigation into the collapse of the Panjiang Bridge in the city of Jiangyou, a municipal publicity department official said.
Six vehicles plunged into the Tongkou River and 12 people went missing after the bridge collapsed on July 9.
The engineer, as well as the Mianyang Transportation Bureau, are among the 60 people and 17 organizations that are being investigated by the local procuratorate and disciplinary organs for the role they may have played in the incident.
Local authorities have detained a transportation bureau official surnamed Gou over alleged dereliction of duty, according to the local publicity department.
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