141 Killed In Gujarat Bridge Collapse, 177 Rescued: 10 Points

Ahmedabad:
At the least 141 individuals have died after a British-era bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi collapsed final night. Some 177 individuals have been saved and groups are looking for a number of others who’re nonetheless lacking.

1. Round 500 individuals, together with girls and kids, had been on the suspension bridge when the cables supporting it snapped, sending individuals crashing into the river under.

2. Many had been performing Chhath puja rituals on the 150-year-old bridge situated 300 km from Ahmedabad.

3. Folks fell on high of one another after the bridge snapped. Movies confirmed many desperately clinging to the stays of the bridge whereas some had been seen swimming to security.

4. The bridge over Machchhu river had been shut for seven months for repairs. It was reopened to the general public on October 26, the Gujarati New 12 months.

5. “Renovation occurred final week. We’re additionally shocked. We’re wanting into the matter… The federal government takes accountability for this tragedy,” Brijesh Merja, Gujarat’s minister for Labour and Employment, instructed NDTV in an unique interview.

6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s in Gujarat, stated rescue and reduction operations have been occurring since yesterday and the centre is extending all assist to the state. He stated whereas he was pained, but in addition has to comply with the trail of responsibility.

7. Gujarat Dwelling Minister Harsh Sanghavi stated this morning {that a} prison case has been registered and a five-member high-powered committee is probing the bridge collapse. “A case has been registered beneath expenses of culpable murder not amounting to homicide and intentional act inflicting dying in opposition to whoever is discovered accountable,” he stated. 

8. The renovator of the century-old bridge had not taken a security certificates earlier than reopening it, native municipal physique’s chief Sandipsinh Zala instructed NDTV.

9. 5 groups of Nationwide Catastrophe Response Pressure or NDRF labored by means of the night time to seek out the lacking. The Military, Navy and Air Pressure additionally joined the operation later.

10. The state authorities has introduced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the relations of every of those that died within the accident and Rs 50,000 for the injured. The Prime Minister additionally introduced a monetary help of Rs 2 lakh every to the households of the victims.

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