Bamboo span collapses during alms, several injured

MAE HONG SON: Several people giving alms to monks were injured, with two in a serious condition, when the Su Tong Pae Bridge, the country’s longest bamboo bridge, collapsed Wednesday morning.

A large crowd of local people and visitors had gathered on the two-metre wide, 500m long walkway to make merit and mark the end of Buddhist Lent, the Ok Pansa festival.

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