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A footbridge across a river swollen by heavy rains collapsed on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, drowning at least nine people who were swept away by a strong current, with one person missing, disaster mitigation officials said.
Seventeen people were rescued at the site of Sunday’s collapse in the province of Bengkulu, where Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency has launched a rescue effort, its spokesman, Agus Wibowo, said.
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