WORLD CUP: Accident in a host city claim lives

At least two people have been killed and 19
injured after an overpass collapsed in the
World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte.
Television images showed part of a passenger
bus crushed under the overpass, two trucks
and a vehicle were also involved.
"The overpass was in the final stages of
construction and they were taking down the
scaffolding when the accident happened," said
a fire brigade spokesman.
A total of 13 people were rescued from the bus
unscathed but the woman driver was killed.
"We were traveling normally and then there
was a terrible noise," Renata Soares, who said
she was on the bus at the moment of the
accident, told GloboNews. "I am sure that
more people in other cars were underneath the
debris."
A car was also crushed but it was not
immediately known how many people were
inside and what their condition was.
"The vehicle is completely under the
overpass," said firefighter spokesman Edgard
Estevo da Silva.
Two trucks belonging to the construction
company were also hit but the firm said
nobody was inside them at the time.
The accident site is around two miles from the
Mineirao stadium, where a World Cup semi-
final match will be held next Tuesday, July 8.
The stadium had already hosted five games,
the highlight of which saw Brazil beat Chile on
penalties in the last-16 on Saturday, while the
overpass was one of the many infrastructure
projects aimed at improving the city's ailing
public transport network.
The bridge was to be used for passenger
buses in a system known as BRT/Move,
considered a legacy project from the World
Cup.
Government overspending on the World Cup
and long delays in finishing promised
infrastructure projects have spurred violent
street protests in Brazil over the past year,
although they have been less prominent in
recent weeks with the hosts reaching the
quarter-finals.
City government officials have launched an
investigation into the causes of the collapse.
The incident was about three miles from the
Minas Tennis Club where the British Olympic
and Paralympic teams will have their training
base ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.