This is the moment a bridge was swept away by surging floodwaters after Hurricane Fiona caused “catastrophic flooding” across Puerto Rico last night.
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Most of the island was still without power or safe drinking water on Monday, with remnants of a category 1 hurricane that struck there a day earlier forecast to bring more heavy rain and life-threatening flooding.

Several landslides had been reported, government officials said. The storm forced the closure of roads while a highway bridge in Utuado town in the island’s center had been washed away by a flooding river.

The bridge, installed in the area after Hurricane Maria devastated the region five years ago, can be heard to collapse with a sickening crash in the rising water. Critics say the total blackout show that authorities have learnt nothing since the 2017 hurricanes.

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