Overloaded truck rolls; highway damaged

Repairs to a broken section of elevated highway in Shanghai will take about two weeks, the Shanghai Road Administration Bureau said on Monday.

The section of the city's Middle Ring Road, a major arterial, was damaged at midnight by an overloaded truck, the bureau said.

Steel pipes and lifting jacks will be used to prop up the damaged section to that a safety assessment can be made. Repairs to the supporting piers and the road surface will follow the assessment, officials said at a media briefing.