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Barely two months after a bridge at the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Rivers State caved in, a part of the bridge leading into Isiokpo, in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state, collapsed on Thursday.

Residents were seen walking across the safer section of the failed bridge to board cabs and buses to their respective destinations. “If it is something they can use their hands to repair, they should please do it fast,” a middle-aged man said. A trader, who identified herself only as Ihuoma, said, “You can see that I am going to Omagwa with my luggage. Assuming the road was okay, I would have gone directly.

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