Loved ones remember victims killed 8 years ago in FIU bridge collapse

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Eight years ago Sunday, at 1:47 p.m., a pedestrian bridge being built to link Sweetwater to Florida International University’s main campus came crashing down.

The horrific accident that claimed six lives would leave a painful scar on the families of the victims and the community as a whole.

Without warning, the pedestrian bridge, designed to connect Sweetwater to the Modesto A. Maidique Campus, came crashing down while under construction…

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