Part of a bridge that spans the Río Rincón in Puerto Jiménez, a fishing community in the southwest Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, collapsed on Friday when a 95-ton crane attempted to cross it, the daily La Nacion reported.
According to the national daily, the 50-year-old bridge was only meant to support 35 tons.
The crane sustained severe [...]

TURRUBARES, Costa Rica – The collapse of a bridge last week that resulted in the death of five people could have been avoided had the government taken heed of an engineer’s report carried out in 2006, the report’s commissioner has claimed.
The report, complete with photographs, highlighted a series of structural problems and warned of a [...]