Two drown as bridge collapses

MADRID - Two elderly people drowned and six others were injured yesterday when a bridge collapsed into the Tagus river at the…

MADRID - Two elderly people drowned and six others were injured yesterday when a bridge collapsed into the Tagus river at the Prince's Palace in Manjuez, a popular tourist attraction near Madrid.

A spokesman for the town hall in Aranjuez, 35 miles south of the capital, said a group of 52 elderly Spaniards had begun crossing the bridge which police said was designed to carry no more than 10 people at a time.

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