China highway bridge collapse kills eleven following flooding and heavy storms

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00:00At least 11 people are dead after a torrential rain collapsed a bridge in northern China.
00:06State media reporting that more than 30 people are missing, so that death toll could rise.
00:12Officials said the bridge had buckled due to a sudden downpour and flash floods.
00:17Initial investigations also indicated that 17 cars and eight trucks had fallen into the
00:22river.
00:23China has been enduring a summer of extreme weather, heavy rains and floods, also successive
00:29heat waves, climate change of course playing a role in making that extreme weather more
00:34frequent and more intense.

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