75-feet bridge goes missing! Town blames thieves

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A 56-tonne bridge, measuring 75-feet, has vanished without a trace from over the Umba river in Russia’s Murmansk region, reports Times Now.

75-feet bridge goes missing! Town blames thieves

According to a Daily Mail report, the 56-tonne structure made up the central section of a dismantled bridge over the Umba River, near the abandoned settlement of Oktyabrskaya. Reports of its disappearance first appeared in May on Russian social media site VK.

People blames thieves are responsible for the disappearance. However, photos from May 16 on VK showed the central section had broken and fallen into the river water. But on May 26, it went completely missing.

"It was taken away by unknowns. At the bottom, too, there is no large debris. Natural phenomena could not bring down the bridge," wrote the VT page that shared the aerial pictures.

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