BELO HORIZONTE Brazil (Reuters) - An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people, emergency officials verbalized.
Television images showed the front of a passenger bus crushed by the overpass, which was located about two miles (3 km) from the Mineirao Stadium where World Cup games are being played. Other conveyances were withal crushed underneath the wreckage, officials verbalized.
Two people died and 19 were injured, a spokeswoman for the Minas Gerais state health department told Reuters. A fire department spokesman verbalized there was still one person trapped in a car, and possibly more.
The cause of the collapse was obscure. The overpass was a component of a network of bus lanes that Brazil orchestrated to have yare for the World Cup, but was not culminated on time.
"We were peregrinating mundanely and then there was a terrible noise," Renata Soares, who verbally expressed she was on the bus at the moment of the contingency, told GloboNews TV. "I am sure that more people in other cars were underneath the debris."
A World Cup semi-final match will be held in Belo Horizonte next Tuesday. The stadium has already hosted five games.
Heavy regime spending on the World Cup and long delays in infrastructure projects have spurred truculent street protests in Brazil over the past year, albeit they have died down in recent weeks.
Last month, one worker died after a 90-tonne beam fell during the construction of a monorail train project in São Paulo.
(Reporting by Guillermo Parra-Bernal, Caroline Stauffer, Eduardo Simoes and Tiago Pariz; Editing by Dan Grebler)
