Two jailed after bridge built by blind man collapses
Reuters | Tuesday, 12 June 2007
A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind
contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and
injured 12 people, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Huang Wenge, township head of Bujia in the southeastern province of
Jiangxi, and colleague Xia Jianzhong were sentenced to 18 months
and one year in jail, respectively, for not stopping the project,
Xinhua said.
"When they knew the bridge was being built by a blind contractor,
they did not stop it," it said, adding the contractor had changed
the blueprint without getting a professional to look at the
design.
"After the blind contractor changed the blueprint, he carried out
the work only using a roughly drawn draft of the plan, which caused
the bridge to collapse," the report said.
Xinhua did not explain how the contractor was able to run the
project considering his inability to see.
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