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Hongqi Bridge collapse in Sichuan: what happened, why it matters, and what people got wrong ===================================== The event (Nov 11, 2025, local time). A section of the Hongqi Bridge on National Highway 317 near Ma’erkang (Barkam), Sichuan partially collapsed after a mountainside gave way and sent debris onto the approach span and roadbed. No casualties were reported because police had already closed the bridge the previous afternoon when engineers observed cracks on nearby slope