Flyover collapse kills two in World Cup city

A flyover under construction yesterday collapsed in a World Cup host city, killing at least two people and trapping a commuter bus, two construction trucks, and a car. Nineteen people were injured.

The incident took place on a main avenue in Belo Horizonte, the expansion of which is one of the infrastructure improvement projects planned for the World Cup, but like most urban transportation projects related to the tournament was not finished on time for the event.

A woman who was driving a commuter bus trapped by the flyover died, said Captain Federico Pascual of the Belo Horizonte fire department. An official in the mayor’s office later said that a second person had died.