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☆ India tunnel collapse: Rescuers begin risky vertical drilling after bid to free trapped Himalayan tunnel workers falters
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

India airlifted a high-powered drilling machine to assist in the rescue of dozens of road workers trapped underground. “The vertical drilling will disturb the rock formation and will cause vibrations to the mountain,” said Sundriyal, who is considered an expert in local rock formations. “However, it is difficult to say which one of the two methods would help us reach the trapped workers first,” he told reporters Monday. But for most of the families of the trapped men, the wait has been an agonizing switch between hope and despair. One of the trapped workers can be seen on camera.

Persons: Mahmood Ahmed, Yaspal, ”, Sundriyal, Harpal Singh, Mahi Shah, Sonu, Shah, ” Shah, ” Krishna Chauhan, Manjeet, Chauhan, ” Chauhan, Narendra Modi’s Char, Anrold Dix, ” Dix, “ Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, Engineers, Authorities, India’s Ministry of, Highways, Garhwal, CNN, Roads Organization, Indian, Ministry of Environment, “ Locations: New Delhi, India’s, Uttarakhand, India, Garhwal University, Uttarakhand Government, Bihar, Mumbai, Mizoram, Morbi, Gujarat, Australian

☆ Uttarakhand, India tunnel collapse: Rescuers scramble to reach up to 40 workers trapped in Uttarkashi
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Rhea Mogul | Aishwarya Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

As many as 40 men were working in the tunnel, part of an ambitious Himalayan highway project in town of Uttarkashi, when part of the passageway leading to the entrance gave way, authorities said. “We are all working hard to get them all out,” Uttarkashi superintendent of police, Arpan Yaduvanshi, told CNN on Monday. Rescuers have been supplying oxygen and water to the men through the debris, Yaduvanshi added. The Char Dham Highway project is expected to be nearly 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) long, improving access to the state from India’s capital New Delhi. In August, more than a dozen workers were killed after a bridge under construction collapsed in the northeastern state of Mizoram.

Persons: New Delhi CNN —, ”, Arpan Yaduvanshi, Anuj Kumar, Narendra Modi’s Char Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, CNN Locations: New Delhi, India, Uttarkashi, State, Narendra Modi’s Char Dham, Uttarakhand, China, Mizoram, Bihar, Morbi, Gujarat

New Delhi CNN —More than a dozen workers have been killed after a bridge under construction collapsed in northeast India Wednesday, the latest in a string of infrastructure failures that have resulted in multiple deaths in the country. The collapse of the bridge in the town of Sairang, Mizoram state, killed at least 17 people and injured several others, according to its chief minister, Zoramthanga, who goes by one name. “Pained by the bridge mishap in Mizoram,” Modi wrote on X, offering a sum of nearly $2,500 to the next of kin of those killed and $600 to the injured workers. Mizoram is a hilly, mountainous state near India’s border with Bangladesh and Myanmar. Last October, a recently repaired suspension bridge gave way in the town of Morbi in Gujarat, killing 135 people.

Persons: New Delhi CNN —, Zoramthanga, “, ”, Narendra Modi, ” Modi Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, Twitter, ” Locations: New Delhi, India, Sairang, Mizoram, South Africa, India’s, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bihar, Morbi, Gujarat

☆ A bridge under construction in India's Bihar state has collapsed -- for the second time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A four-lane concrete bridge being built across the River Ganges in the east Indian state of Bihar has collapsed for the second time in just over a year, once again raising questions about the quality of its construction. The Sultanganj Bridge has collapsed twice since construction began in 2017, the first time in April last year before Sunday’s catastrophic failure. It’s not clear why the bridge collapsed last year or if those problems had been rectified. Crowds of people on the river bank can be seen filming the bridge and shouting as it tumbles down. The Sultanganj Bridge is not the only one to have collapsed in India in the last year.

Persons: Bihar’s, Nitish Kumar, McElhanney Organizations: CNN, Singla Locations: Bihar, India, Morbi, Gujarat

☆ India suspension bridge collapses for a second time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW DELHI, June 5 (Reuters) - A suspension bridge being built in India's poorest state collapsed for the second time in 14 months, with one person reported missing, Reuters partner ANI reported on Monday. The bridge was being built over the River Ganges in Bhagalpur district of India's eastern state of Bihar. Later we found out the bridge had collapsed," Rakesh Kumar, a local resident, told ANI. Eight men were on the bridge at the time of its collapse on Sunday, with one guard reported missing, ANI said. In October last year, a colonial-era suspension bridge collapsed in the town of Morbi in the western state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging hundreds into the Machchhu river below and killing 135.

Persons: Rakesh Kumar, Amit Raj, Nitish Kumar, Sakshi Dayal, Nick Macfie Organizations: Construction, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Bhagalpur district, India's, Bihar, Morbi, Gujarat

☆ Broken wires, faulty renovation caused deadly India bridge collapse, probe finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Sumit Khanna | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

AHMEDABAD, India, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Broken corroded wires, improper welding and changes to the walking surface of a 145-year-old hanging bridge in India contributed to its collapse last year that killed 135 people, an investigation has found. "Main cable of the upstream side was found broken on one side," according to a preliminary investigation report seen by Reuters. "Out of the 49 wires of the main cable, 22 were corroded which indicates that those wires may be already broken before the incident. The Oreva Group did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The report blamed Oreva for unrestricted access to the bridge for people and insufficient security arrangements.

Morbi, India CNN —A marigold garland hangs across a photo frame with the faces of 12 members of the Bodha family who died when a bridge collapsed beneath them during a family outing in Gujarat, eastern India. In the days since the tragedy, few answers have emerged as to why the colonial-era suspension bridge appeared to snap, spilling dozens of people into the Machchhu River. Police investigating the case have suggested the company tasked with maintaining the bridge, Oreva, failed to conduct the appropriate repairs or tests to ensure the bridge was safe for pedestrians. Courtesy Prabhulal BodhaDiwali holidays turn deadlyThe suspension bridge has hung across the Machchhu River for as long as anyone can remember. Gujarat authorities estimate some 200 people were on the bridge when it collapsed – much more than the capacity allowed, they said.

☆ Indian Bridge Collapse Casts Harsh Spotlight on Safety Practices
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Prakash Parmar was supposed to meet a prospective bride for his brother last Sunday in his hometown of Morbi in northwestern India. But when those plans were postponed, he, his brother and his sister decided to visit the town’s star attraction: a colonial-era suspension bridge. The bridge had reopened days earlier after being closed for months for repairs, just in time for the first major holiday season—celebrations of Diwali and the new year in the state of Gujarat—without Covid-19 restrictions. Three young cousins and a neighbor joined them.

☆ India's Gujarat state suspends senior local administrator for bridge collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Sumit Khanna | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"The state government has suspended Sandeepsinh Zala, chief officer of Morbi municipality in view of the bridge collapse," Pankaj Joshi, secretary to Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, told Reuters. The bridge - 233 metres in length and 1.25 metres wide - was originally built in 1877 and had been closed for six months for repairs until last week. India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hails from the state and was its chief minister for close to 13 years, has called for a detailed and extensive inquiry into the cause of the disaster. The government in the Western Indian state, where legislative elections are due to be held next month, called off the search operation for survivors on Thursday. Local fire brigade, state and national disaster teams will be kept on standby, a government statement said.

[1/2] A man sits at the site of a damaged suspension bridge after it collapsed on Sunday, in Morbi town in the western state of Gujarat, India, November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer/File PhotoMORBI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - India's Gujarat state on Thursday said that the search operation following the collapse of a bridge that led to the death of 135 people had been called off. Local fire brigade, state and national disaster teams will be kept on standby, a government statement said. "One person was reportedly missing since the incident, but we have a police report that says no such person is missing. And hence the decision to call off the search operation," GT Pandya, senior administrative official in Morbi told Reuters.

☆ Heartbreaking photos show belongings left behind by Halloween stampede victims
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Jeremy Schultz | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

The colonial-era suspension bridge over the Machchhu river in Morbi was packed with sightseers when it broke on Sunday evening, sending people plunging about 10 metres into the water killing more than 130 people.

☆ South Korea mourns after Halloween crush
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Day of the Dead celebrations
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Anuja Jaiman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Friends and family mourn lives lost in India bridge disaster
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Rescue boats search the Machchu river where the pedestrian bridge collapsed on Sunday. Friends have lost friends and parents have lost children. By the time rescuers pulled Naseema to safety, the river had consumed every other family member who had been on the bridge that evening. He said that like many others, his daughter and son were excited to visit the bridge and watch the sunset. Crestfallen and anxious, he rushed to a nearby hospital where he saw his two children lying dead on stretchers.

☆ Flags at half-mast as India's Gujarat mourns deadly bridge collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Shivam Patel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A man sits at the site of a damaged suspension bridge after it collapsed on Sunday, in Morbi town in the western state of Gujarat, India, November 1, 2022. Rescue workers would continue their search for any unaccounted persons for a fourth day, a government control room said, though local officials said on Tuesday that only one person was believed to be missing still. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has appealed to people in his state to pray for the departed souls and their families. A senior police official told Reuters this week that about 200 people were on the bridge when it collapsed. Local municipality officials said tickets for about 400 people had been sold, although not necessarily to be on the bridge at the same time.

☆ Nine arrested after bridge collapses in India, killing 134
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

MORBI, India — Police in western India 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. The same month, Oreva closed the bridge, which spans a wide section of the Machchu river, for repairs. Modi was the top elected official of Gujarat for 12 years before becoming India’s prime minister in 2014. A Gujarat state government election is expected in coming months and opposition parties have demanded a thorough investigation of the accident.

[1/5] Rescuers conduct search operation after a suspension bridge collapsed on Sunday, in Morbi town in the western state of Gujarat, India, November 1, 2022. REUTERS/StringerMORBI, India, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The death toll from an Indian foot bridge collapse rose to 135 on Tuesday with search operations entering a third day, although nearly all those believed to have been missing are now accounted for. "Search operations have begun again today. Indian army, navy and national disaster response teams continued search operations as locals gathered on the banks of the river near the twisted remains of the bridge. Indian police arrested nine people on Monday, including ticketing clerks and contractors, as they investigate the collapse of the bridge.

CNN —More than 50 children are among 135 people killed in Sunday’s bridge collapse in India’s Gujarat state, according to a list of victims published by state authorities on Wednesday. Rescue workers conduct search operations after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed at Morbi in India's Gujarat state on October 31, 2022. A shoe lies near a damaged suspension bridge in Morbi, India, November 1, 2022. Mourners take part in a funeral procession while carrying the coffins of victims who died after a bridge across the river Machchhu collapsed at Morbi in India's Gujarat state on October 31, 2022. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the site of the deadly bridge collapse in western India on Tuesday.

☆ Guards on India bridge struggled to control crowd before collapse, witnesses say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Shivam Patel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Local officials said about 400 tickets had been sold, although not necessarily to be on the bridge at the same time. "Then the bridge collapsed in front of our eyes," the 32-year-old construction worker said. The witnesses did not know whether the security guards had survived. Those arrested included ticketing clerks and three security guards who were on duty when the bridge collapsed, senior police official Ashok Kumar Yadav said. Reuters could not confirm whether the two guards who witnesses reported seeing at the bridge were among the three arrested.

☆ Death toll in India bridge collapse rises to at least 132
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The bridge had been closed for renovation for almost six months and was reopened just four days ago. It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were on the 761-foot-long bridge, but officials fear the death toll could rise. State minister Harsh Sanghvi told reporters that 132 people had died so far and many were admitted to hospitals in critical condition. Rescuers search the Machchu river in the Indian state of Gujarat on Monday after a cable suspension bridge collapsed, sending hundreds of people plunging into the water. The bridge collapse is Asia’s third major disaster involving large crowds in a month.

☆ Collapse of Overcrowded Suspension Bridge Kills 68 in India’s Gujarat State
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rescue operations continued Sunday night after the bridge, which had spanned over the Machchhu River for over a century, collapsed earlier in the evening. A suspension bridge collapsed and killed at least 68 people in the western Indian state of Gujarat after the more-than-century-old structure was crowded with hundreds of visitors on Sunday, according to the state disaster management agency. Officers managing emergency operations for the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority said that as of late Sunday night, 68 bodies had been recovered. Some 170 people had been rescued and taken to a local hospital in Morbi district, where the incident occurred. Rescue operations are continuing, the disaster agency said.

☆ Factbox: Century-old India hanging bridge collapses days after repair
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Here are some details about the bridge:* It was built in 1877 in the town of Morbi in Gujarat state when the British ruled India. * Local authorities call the bridge an "engineering marvel" that was "built to give a unique identity to Morbi using the latest technology available in those days, in Europe". * Local authorities said the Oreva group, maker of Ajanta clocks and electrical products, was this year awarded a contract to maintain and manage the bridge for 15 years. * The bridge was earlier maintained by the local municipality, which used to limit the number of people on the bridge at one time to 20. Reporting by Sumit Khanna; Writing by Krishna N. Das; Editing by Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Seven members of same family killed in Indian bridge collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Sumit Khanna | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

AHMEDABAD, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Seven members of the Jadeja family were returning from a temple in the Indian town of Morbi on Sunday when the children asked to be taken to a suspension bridge, a local tourist attraction that had reopened after repairs. The Jadejas were among at least 134 people killed in the accident, one of India's deadliest bridge collapses, a relative and a family friend said. "They were on the bridge when it collapsed," said Kanaksinh Jadeja, a cousin of the two Jadeja brothers - Pratapsinh and Pradyumansinh - who lost their mother, wives and four children. An Oreva spokesperson did not answer calls and text messages from Reuters. The Indian Express newspaper quoted an Oreva spokesperson as saying: "... the bridge collapsed as too many people in the mid-section of the bridge were trying to sway it from one way to the other."

☆ Death toll from India bridge collapse rises to 132, search on for missing
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Sumit Khanna | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Rescuers search for survivors after a suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi town in the western state of Gujarat, India, October 31, 2022. REUTERS/StringerAHMEDABAD, India, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The death toll from a bridge collapse in Gujarat in India rose to 132, a local government official told Reuters on Monday. read more"The death toll in the bridge collapse incident has gone up to 132. The search and rescue operations are continuing," said the senior official, NK Muchhar, adding that the toll could rise further. Authorities said more than 400 people were on and around the colonial-era suspension bridge at the time of the collapse.

☆ At least 60 dead, many injured after India bridge collapse
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

NEW DELHI — At least 60 people died and many are feared injured after a cable bridge collapsed into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday evening, local media reported. Officials told local media over a hundred people were plunged into the Machchu river when the bridge in the state’s Morbi district collapsed. It was not immediately clear how many people were on the bridge, but officials fear the death toll could rise. They are being rushed to hospitals.”Videos on social media showed people clinging onto the partly submerged bridge in distress while another showed people swimming to safety. Rescue operations are underway, with National Disaster Response Force Teams rushing to the site, local media reported.

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