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Italy hunts for blame in bridge collapse that killed 39
Officials looking at possible design flaws, maintenance records
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Vehicles are blocked on the collapsed Morandi highway bridge in Genoa, northern Italy, Wednesday. A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging nearly 300 feet into a heap of rubble below. - photo by Associated Press
GENOA, Italy — As more bodies were pulled Wednesday from a mountain of jagged concrete and twisted steel left by a highway bridge collapse that killed 39, prosecutors focused on possible design flaws and past maintenance of the heavily used span, and politicians squabbled over blame.
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