Recently, the 43 year old bridge in Gujarat’s Gambhira bridge Collapse and 4 vehicles fall into it. There are 9 people killed in this incident, and many other are still trapped. This bridge is located in Mujpur in Padra taluka of the Vadodara district, and linked Mujpur to Gambhira in Anand district with Central Gujarat to Saurashtra.
Videos of the bridge collapse show a tanker dangling from the damaged bridge whilst a girl trapped in the river heard crying for help for her son, trapped in the overturned Eeco van in the water.
9 killed in Gambhira bridge Collapse Incident
Anil Dhameliya, District Collector, Vadodara said, “We rescued 5 people, and announced dead. While the rescue operation is on, we recognize that vehicles, an Eeco van, a pickup van, and an auto-rickshaw fall the river.”
Vadodara district fire and emergency team, as well as the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rushed to the spot to carry out rescue operations. NDRF’s Vadodara 6BN unit said it had dispatched a team to the incident site along side deep water dives to assist in the rescue operation.
“It isn’t the inner most part of the river, and rescue is continue. There have been two vehicles on the bridge on the time as well, but thus far, we haven’t any confirmation whether they also fall the river. We are but to envision the identities of the human beings as we’re focusing at the rescue work,” Dhameliya said.
Injured People take to Hospital Facilities
The injured people in Gambhira bridge Collapse incident have taken to the nearby hospitals in Vadodara district. Dhameliya said that of the 5 rescued humans, 4 had sustained major injuries, and escaped with ‘minor injuries’.
Dhameliya said that the bridge repaired last year. “The govt engineers of the Road and Bridges Department are on their way to the spot. We take a look at the details of the bridge once the rescue work finish,” he said.
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