Espoo Tapiola News Today

Many parts of the footbridge were weak, according to investigators.

The bridge crossing a construction site in Espoo’s Tapiola district collapsed on Thursday morning.

Finnish rescuers said some 27 young people, most of them children, were hurt when a temporary footbridge by a construction site collapsed.

Most of those hurt are minors on a school trip, according to Helsinki University Hospital District (HUS).

The incident happend Thursday morning when a group of school children were crossing the temporary construction bridge near a shopping centre in the southern town of Tapiola.

A group of schoolchildren are thought to make up the majority of those hurt

Two dozen people, many of them schoolchildren, were injured when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in the southern Finnish city of Espoo on Thursday, police and media said.

Storyn, Pupun ja Bites Burgersin ruoista pääsee keskiviikosta lähtien nauttimaan Espoon Tapiolassa.