A section of a bridge in China that opened in November has collapsed, leaving three people dead and five injured.
Xinhua news agency said four lorries fell off the Yangmingtan Bridge in Harbin City, Heilongjiang province, when part of it collapsed.
Shoddy construction and over-loading have been blamed for the incident. Officials said they will investigate to see if the lorries were overloaded.
The bridge, which spans the Songhua river and is 15.42km long, was finished nine months ago and cost 1.88 billion yuan ($US286 million).
A 100m ramp section collapsed, causing the lorries to plummet to the ground.
Xinhua said it is the sixth collapse of a major bridge in China since July 2011, the agency said.
People's Daily Online newspaper quoted officials from the Harbin municipal government as saying the lorries were carrying feed and stones.
