Interior Minister Carlos Romero said three of the dead were musicians.
Dozens were on the bridge when it collapsed and the normally festive, even raucous, parade of colorfully clad musicians and dancers became a funereal march.
The four-day annual event is Bolivia's most celebrated festival, drawing at least 20,000 musicians and dancers, and tens of thousands more tourists to the regional capital.
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