A bridge collapse that killed two people in south-western France was apparently caused by a lorry that weighed too much, prosecutors say.
Two vehicles plunged into the River Tarn, north of Toulouse, when the bridge near the village of Mirepoix-sur-Tarn fell down on Monday morning.
One of the vehicles, a lorry, weighed more than 50 tonnes, prosecutors said.
The suspension bridge, built in 1931, could take a maximum weight of 19 tonnes.
"The fact that this heavy vehicle took the bridge... currently seems to be the immediate and apparent cause of the accident," prosecutor Dominique Alzeari said at a news conference on Tuesday.
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