“I pushed the people in front of me to leave”. Then I found the glass under my feet was cracked.
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The Weibo post has now been removed by the 20-year-old woman, as she said she had received too much attention.
“Only one of a total of three layers of glass broke, so the tourists were not in danger”, the spokesman said.
According to the Daily Mail, officials confirmed the incident and closed the tourist attraction for fix works.
It was only in September that China inaugurated a lovely glass bridge at Yuntai Mountain Geological Park in Henan, and several videos showing terrified people walking on it floated around the Internet. The glass is said to be able to carry up to 800 kilograms per square meter. The cracks appeared on a 68-metre stretch of the bridge.
It remains unclear if the entire bridge has been shut or just the affected section, or when it will reopen again to members of the public. It withstood very rigorous testing by Golden Week crowds last week.
Tianmen Mountain’s newly-opened glass bridge also remains as yet uncracked.
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A worker carts cement to build a road on the side of a mountain in Shiniuzhai National Geopark in Pingjiang county, Yueyang city, central China’s Hunan province, April 10, 2015. Despite the design allowing one pane to crack and the glass to still be safe, to ensure that visitors were 100 percent safe and secure, Yuntaishan Scenic Area Authority made a decision to suspend the glass plank site immediately after the opening, to be repaired, according to People’s Daily.
