Man Drops from Bridge | Video

Jessica Roose, Alex Hagan | 8/8/2012

Searchers are looking for a man who either jumped or fell off a railroad bridge over the Missouri River Wednesday evening. Witnesses say friends had dared the man to go onto the bridge and around 8:00, they saw him climb to the top of the bridge and drop into the water.

Dive teams from Burleigh and Morton Counties were called to the area. Divers have been checking the river since then. But they haven`t found him yet.

"Well basically, I saw a guy probably, I don`t know, three pillars or so over at the top. He was intoxicated and basically he jumped and landed on his back, " said Tony Olson, a witness.

It`s not clear how long divers would stay in the water before resuming search efforts in the morning.

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