Plumes of dust and rubble plummeted into the river and mountainside in south-west China, after a newly opened bridge collapsed.
Video of the Hongqi Bridge collapsing in Sichuan province on Tuesday (local time) was shared across social media, showing a thick cloud of dust as pieces of the bridge fell.
No casualties were reported.
Authorities had closed the newly opened 758-metre-long bridge linking Sichuan and Tibet after cracks appeared.
According to the Guardian, a landslide caused part of the bridge to collapse.
The highway that the bridge is part of runs through a seismically active part of China, which was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed 70,000 people.
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