Experts start the delicate task of taking apart Genoa's Morandi motorway bridge on Friday almost six months after its partial collapse during a storm killed 43 people and injured dozens.
Thousands of tonnes of steel, concrete and asphalt have already been removed from the spectacularly truncated high-rise bridge in the northern Italian port city to make it lighter before the "deconstruction" operation begins.
Four powerful strand-jacks positioned on the bridge by an enormous crane will unhook and slowly lower a 36 by 18 metre (118 by 59 foot) concrete slab weighing over 900 tonnes from around 0830 GMT.

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