Not less than two folks have died and greater than 30 are injured after a bridge collapsed in India, officers have stated.
Maharashtra’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis added that various folks have been swept away after the bridge – over the Indrayani river within the western Indian metropolis of Pune – collapsed on Sunday.
He added on social media that “some people got swept away, so a search operation is underway on a war footing to find them”.
The minister stated six folks have been rescued whereas 32 have been injured, with six in a important situation, and that the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Pressure had been deployed, with different businesses directed to stay on excessive alert.
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It comes 4 days after an Air India flight crashed lower than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in northwestern India, killing a minimum of 270 folks.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which was carrying 53 Britons, crashed right into a docs’ hostel in a residential space moments after taking off.
And earlier on Sunday, a helicopter carrying Hindu pilgrims crashed in a forested space a number of miles from the Kedarnath pilgrimage route, killing seven folks on board.
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That accident occurred inside minutes of the helicopter taking off, officers stated, on what ought to have been a 10-minute flight.
The helicopter was flying to Guptkashi, a outstanding Hindu pilgrimage website within the Himalayas, from the temple city of Kedarnath within the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.
