OBSERVERS at the edge of the collapsed bridge that left one Vincentian worker dead and two Guyanese injured.

by STEPHEN SMITH

BASSETERRE – A bridge under construction in St Kitts collapsed around midday yesterday, killing one worker and seriously injuring two others.

Dead is a Vincentian national. Two Guyanese were hospitalised; their names had not been released up to Press time.

The bridge forms part of the new Caribbean Development Bank-funded City By-pass Highway, which is to route traffic from Bulkeleys, near the capital, to the new roundabout at the Robert L. Bradshaw Airport and onto the Kim Collins Highway.

Reports indicate that the accident occurred when a delivery truck was pumping concrete onto the decking to create the bridge. The scaffolding and plywood sheets collapsed under the weight of the concrete, burying the Vincentian worker.