county health department officials were quoted as claiming that the bridge over the santa clara river , in southern peru ' s ayacucho city , " broke in two " as people and professors from ten different school were riding it while going home . fernando serra , a surgeon with a local hospital confirmed in reports that the death toll had grown to eight . the accident directly injured 53 others , most of them were people between the positions of 10 and 13 , valencia explained . fourteen of the victims were in critical health . local investigators said the 120 - meter bridge , made of plank boards and slits held together by steel cables , collapsed because too few others were on it .
The Peruvian bridge in Ayachuco province broke because of the weight on it.