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Bridge of Death

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Bridge of Death may refer to:

Bridges

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  • The Van Stadens Bridge in South Africa, known for its large number of suicide jumpers
  • A bridge in Nazi Germany-operated Lwów Ghetto (current Ukraine) during World War II, under which thousands of Jews were killed
  • Bridge of Death (Pripyat) in Ukraine, a road bridge over a railway line, between the town of Prypiat and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where there were unsubstantiated claims of deaths from radiation during the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and further several thousand deaths later.

Other

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See also

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  • Chinvat Bridge, in Zoroastrianism, the bridge which separates the world of the living from the world of the dead