This is the criminal investigation for the fall of Chirajara Bridge

The Office of the Prosecutor conducted several field tests and relied on the help of several experts to clarify the facts and the corresponding responsibility for the collapse that caused the deaths of nine people in January latest. They must discard if it was a failure in the calculations of the engineers, in the building materials or if the earth moved.

Since the collapse of the Chirajara Bridge, on the road Bogotá-Villavicencio, authorities have been behind the corresponding investigation to understand what were the technical failures that ultimately led to one of the worst infrastructure accidents in Colombia. For several months, the Office of the Prosecutor has been providing teams of experts to carry out inspections on the site of the tragedy that occurred on January 15th.

T of the accident in which nine people died after the collapse of the bridge Chirajara, the corresponding authorities arrived and in the first few months of the year, the Office of the Prosecutor carried out 15 inspections at the offices of companies in charge of construction, audit and project-related contracts

(Read: The Chirajara Bridge fell due to design failures)

Similarly, several plans have already been taken to the field in which samples of soil, rock, concrete were badyzed, steel and other elements that serve as evidence material facts. Part of the tests were sent last April to the Concrelab laboratory in Colombia, where tests have already been carried out on the strength and quality of materials that would have been used in construction.

(In context: The Office of the Prosecutor's Plan to Investigate the Tragedy of Chirajara

As the authorities have badured, these are the otographies [3] and three-dimensional reconstruction videos with the help of drones, allowed the investigating body to have a panoramic view of the road project, from the exact point of its collapse. [19659005] The prosecutor of the case explained that the International Center of Numerical Methods in Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Cimne) ] will carry out the specific badyzes which will allow us finally to understand the behavior of the bridge so that the work can lead to an irremediable landslide

a: Farewell to the bridge of Chirajara)

Despite the intervention of the authorities, many questions remain about the events that took place m arched the end of the life of nine people who were on the ground on January 15 last. moment of the accident. The results of the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor are still not revealed. On Wednesday, July 12, around two o'clock in the afternoon, the tower that had remained standing after the bridge collapsed was demolished.

The demolition was intended to examine the surrounding structures and to make some chain The American Concrete Institute (ACI) had already found cracks in the tower that was standing, which was declared threatened with collapse imminent. It was at the end of January.