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The Ava Bridge (Burmese: အင်းဝတံတား) was a 16-span simply supported bridge between Ava and Sagaing, Mandalay Division, Burma. It was built by the British in 1934. The bridge was destroyed by the retreating British Army during World War II and was rebuilt in 1954 after Burmese independence. It was the only bridge to span the Irrawaddy River until the early 21st century, when a spate of bridge construction was carried out by the government, including the new Irrawaddy Bridge, completed in 2008.
The bridge was opened in 1934 by Governor Sir Hugh Lansdown Stephenson and carried road, rail and pedestrian traffic across the Irrawaddy. Its opening boosted the flow of trade in the country. It was also known as the Old Sagaing Bridge, and it linked the Mandalay and Sagaing regions. During World War II, British troops dynamited the structure repeatedly as they retreated, reportedly around 18 times, before the center of the bridge finally collapsed.
The bridge, then 91 years old, collapsed on the afternoon of Friday 28 March 2025, during a 7.7-magnitude earthquake whose epicenter was near the town of Sagaing. The quake affected both Myanmar and Thailand, and several buildings in Mandalay, Naypyitaw and other areas collapsed as well. The tremor struck at about 13:21 local time and led to a state of emergency being declared. Video footage verified by Reuters captured sections of the bridge falling, and early reports described the collapse of the historic crossing over the Irrawaddy in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, as partial. The loss of the span, which had been a vital road and rail link between Mandalay and Sagaing, added to the wider damage to infrastructure across central Myanmar.
Due to the 2025 Myanmar earthquake, the bridge collapsed into the Irrawaddy River. Additionally, there were severe ground cracks around the bridge in the soil.
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