Moment of Genoa Bridge collapse caught on camera

11:15, 15.08.2018

Davide Di Giorgio caught the moment a motorway bridge in Genoa, Italy collapsed, killing dozens, as he was shooting a video to send to his parents.

“It was like a film,” he told Euronews. “I heard a big noise and I didn’t know if it was the noise of the collapse or thunder and, through the smartphone, I realised what was happening and started to scream. I didn’t think it was real, it couldn’t happen. I’m shocked, we are all shocked.”

Di Giorgio, who captured the footage from his office, can be heard in the video shouting “oh my god” as the bridge falls to the ground.

A motorway bridge has collapsed near the Italian city of Genoa, killing about 30 people, according to Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

The number of fatalities is likely to rise, according to Italian Deputy Transport Minister Edoardo Rixi.

A 200-metre section of the Morandi Bridge, part of the A10 motorway, fell down. The Morandi Bridge was built over the northern Italian port city of Genoa in the 1960s and restructuring work on the structure was carried out in 2016.

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