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Fast action: Footbridge gets fixed after lawmakers fall into murky water

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Leizel Lacastesantos , ABS-CBN News

<p>ZAMBOANGA CITY - The local government unit immediately fixed a footbridge that sent lawmakers and local officials into murky waters when it collapsed Thursday.</p><p>The new footbridge was still made of wooden planks.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/04/27/bridge.jpg?ext=.jpg"/><figcaption>A footbridge that collapsed just as lawmakers and local officials were inspecting housing units is seen rebuilt a day after the incident. <em>Leizel Lacastesantos, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Officials were inspecting housing projects of the Zamboanga Roadmap to Recovery and Reconstruction program when the wooden footbridge <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/classified-odd/04/26/18/oops-footbridge-collapses-sending-lawmakers-local-officials-into-water">collapsed</a>.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1435217" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="~//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="~//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Among the officials who fell into the water were Representative Albee Benitez, Mayor Beng Climaco Salazar, Rep. Celso Lobregat, national housing authority officials and their staff.</p><p>Lobregat said in an interview Friday that he was the first to fall and that other officials fell on top of him.</p><p>He sustained bruises and accidentally drank seawater but was thankful his injuries weren&#x27;t life-threatening.</p><p>The residents of the barangay claimed they had repeatedly notified National Housing Authority about the substandard bridge but did not get any response. </p><p>In a Facebook post, Mayor Beng Climaco Salazar said that the incident truly showed the poor state of housing projects currently implemented by the National Housing Authority.</p><p>Climaco added it was time to &quot;fully investigate the NHA in Zamboanga City, including its cohorts, the private contractors of the housing project.”</p>

<p>The local government unit immediately fixed a footbridge that sent lawmakers and local officials into murky waters when it collapsed Thursday.</p>

The local government unit immediately fixed a footbridge that sent lawmakers and local officials into murky waters when it collapsed Thursday.

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Fast action: Footbridge gets fixed after lawmakers fall into murky water

Leizel Lacastesantos ,

ABS-CBN News

Published April 27, 2018 04:44 PM PHT

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Celso Lobregat

Albee Benitez

Mayor Beng Climaco Salazar

Zamboanga

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