Police in western India have arrested nine people as they investigate the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge.
Search-and-rescue efforts continued on Monday, October 31 after a pedestrian bridge collapsed on Sunday evening in Morbi, a city in India’s Gujarat state, killing at least 141 people, according to local police. arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge in one of the country’s worst accidents in years, officials said. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134.
Gujarat authorities opened a case against Oreva for suspected culpable homicide, attempted culpable homicide and other violations. It was reopened nearly seven months later, on Oct. 26, the first day of the Gujarati New Year, which coincides with the Hindu festival season, and the attraction drew hundreds of sightseers.
At least 177 survivors were pulled from the river, said Jigar Khunt, an information department official in Gujarat. It was unclear how many people were on the bridge when it collapsed and how many remained missing, but survivors said it was so densely packed that people were unable to quickly escape when its cables began to snap.
Gujarat is the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was visiting the state at the time of the accident. He said he was "deeply saddened by the tragedy" and his office announced compensation for families of the dead and called for speedy rescue efforts.
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