The El Castro viaduct, on the A-6, 585 meters long, suffered an unexpected collapse on Tuesday in the Leonese municipality of Vega de Valcarce, right on the border with the Galician community: a 50-meter concrete deck fell to the void, drastically cutting this communication route in the direction of A Coruña. A second section collapsed in the Leonese municipality of Vega de Valcarce, at the gates of the province of Lugo. The first had collapsed on the 7th, and since then, according to the General Director of Highways, Javier Herrero, they have been looking for the "undetected problem" that has triggered this "unprecedented" incident in Spanish civil engineering. This was one of the last infrastructures that completed the A-6 motorway to Galicia 21 years ago, and one of the few viaducts.

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