If the listener asks “In what state did the workers arrive?”, which reply best meets the question?

Supplementary Practice 12: Rhetorical Evidence, Competing Analyses and Reasoned Revision

• Innamā talifa jānibu al-jisri al-sharqī — only the eastern section was damaged
• Waṣala al-ʿummālu wa-hum yaḥmilūna al-adawāt — they arrived carrying tools
• Taʾakhkhara al-ʿamalu. Ishtadda al-maṭaru — work was delayed; it rained harder
• Salāmatu al-nāsi awlā — people’s safety takes priority