Five bridges and a ship loading dock collapse in July

Image of the collapse of a section of the dock of bridge Ibicuy, located in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina, on July 18, 2011. In the last hours a large portion of this areas of the pier collapsed and dragged the waters of the Parana two people, an unspecified number of cranes, a tanker loaded with 34, 000 liters of fuel and a truck, according to local report. (Xinhua/Telam/ef)

On July 11, two trucks fell through a bridge spanning the Yu River in Yancheng, Jiangsu. Three days later a bridge on Wuyi Mountain in Fujian collapsed—the tour bus it was carrying falling along with it, injuring 22 and killing one. Two more bridge failures came on July 15 and 17: A tractor trailer fell while on a bridge in Hangzhou, and then part of a viaduct bridge in Wuhan cracked and buckled, and was closed to traffic. The final failure was on July 19, when the White River bridge near Baoshan Temple, Beijing, gave way as an overloaded truck was on its way across.

Five bridge collapses within nine days? People started to wonder.