Collapse of Can Tho Bridge - Casualties

Casualties

No official number of casualties has been released by Vietnamese relevant authorities so far. As of 24:00 September 27, 2007, the casualties, as made available by the local and international newspapers, were as follows:

• According to Vietnam News Agency and CNN, 52 people dead and 149 injured.
• According to Vietnam Net, 49 corpses have been found and 181 people injured.
• According to Thanh Nien and VnExpress, 37 people dead and 87 injured, not including those not yet recovered from the debris.
• According to Tuổi Trẻ, 52 people dead, 97 injured and several survivors trapped in the debris. However, this newspaper stated 37 dead on 27 September 2007.
• According to BBC, 36 dead, nevertheless, Reuters quoted a Chinese subcontractor as saying 60 dead.
• According to the newspaper Tien Phong, 59 dead, 97 injured and still 70 trapped under the debris.

Other source shows that the death toll has reached 59. It seems that the contractor and the responsible persons have intentionally tried to give irregular number of death toll by continuously decreasing the death toll to the public despite the fact that more and more corpses have been found by the rescue teams. As of October 1, the number of casualties according to Tien Phong and other local newspapers, the dead toll reached 50, 81 injured, and 3 missing. According to the statistics by rescue forces, in the afternoon of October 3, 2007, 2 more corpses have been found under the debris, and one more dead in the local hospital, raising the casualties up to 53 dead, 81 injured and one man still missing.