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SAO PAULO (AP) — A woman's body has been found after a bridge
linking two northern states in Brazil collapsed, bringing the
death toll so far to nine.
Brazil’s navy said on Friday that the body was found 6
kilometers (3.7 miles) from the Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
Bridge. Another eight people remain unaccounted for.
Several cars and trucks plunged into the Tocantins River after a
section of the bridge crumbled on Sunday.
Police operating on the border of the northern states of
Maranhao and Tocantins said four trucks, two cars and two
motorcycles entered the river.
The 533-meter (1,748-foot) -long bridge between the cities of
Estreito and Aguiarnopolis was built in the 1960s. It is about
1,300 kilometers (800 miles) north of the capital, Brasilia.
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