One more body has been found after a bridge linking two northern states on Brazil collapsed, lifting the death toll to nine.

Authorities in Brazil on Thursday said the risk of acid pollution from a bridge collapse in the country's north has been contained, as they raised the death toll from the disaster to eight.A local government environment official,

A bridge linking two northern states in Brazil collapsed, sending cars and trucks plunging into the river below. A sulphuric acid spill is complicating the rescue operation.

Another eight people remain unaccounted for. Several cars and trucks plunged into the Tocantins River after a section of the 1,748-foot-long bridge crumbled on Sunday.