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TAPIJULAPA, Mexico (AP) - A footbridge loaded with villagers on their way to a religious festival collapsed, sending four people to their deaths in the rocky river ravine below, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.
Thirty-seven people were injured and planks were left dangling from a single cable 80 feet above a river and its rocky banks after one side of the bridge gave out on Saturday.
The bridge failed as dozens of people crossed in the initiation of an annual theatrical tribute to the Mayan rain god to ensure plentiful crops in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
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