BENGALURU: A foot bridge over a hurricane water drain connecting Isro Colony slum with Cambridge Layout, east Bengaluru, collapsed on Tuesday, marooning about 4,000 other folks dwelling in about 450 tenements and shacks. The metal bridge — 3.5ft in width and 52ft in length and the one means out of the slum — collapsed beneath the burden of an election marketing campaign birthday party that had visited to hunt votes.
A two-year-old, recognized as Shalini S, was once amongst the ones injured in the incident that took place round 9am. While girls and kids have been specifically hit, students attending particular classes have been pressured to stay house. While citizens improvised and made the bridge serviceable — for the courageous, a minimum of — by means of putting down boards and previous doorways over the middle, crossing over is still a worry. A pipeline supplying water from a borewell at one finish of the bridge additionally collapsed.
A two-year-old, recognized as Shalini S, was once amongst the ones injured in the incident that took place round 9am. While girls and kids have been specifically hit, students attending particular classes have been pressured to stay house. While citizens improvised and made the bridge serviceable — for the courageous, a minimum of — by means of putting down boards and previous doorways over the middle, crossing over is still a worry. A pipeline supplying water from a borewell at one finish of the bridge additionally collapsed.
Bengaluru bridge mishaps leaves 4,000 marooned
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May 09, 2018
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