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Stabilization work is under way the day after the partial collapse of the Carola Bridge, a major artery across the Elbe river in the German city of Dresden. A support structure was completed overnight on one side of the bridge to stabilize the section that connects to the river bank, a spokesman for the fire brigade said on Thursday. A similar substructure is to be erected later on Thursday on the other side of the bridge, which leads to Dresden’s popular Old Town district. In the early hours of Wednesday, an approximately 100-metre section of the bridge collapsed. The accident caused no injur…

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