Nine people were arrested Monday in connection with the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in western India that killed almost 140 people, police said.
in western India that killed almost 140 people, police said. The nine people arrested — all associated with a company that maintained the bridge in Morbi — were being investigated for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, senior police officer Ashok Kumar Yadav said in a statement.
The walkway and one fence crashed into the Machchhu river, leaving the other side dangling in mid-air as people fell into the water in the dark. "The cables snapped and the bridge came down in a split second. People fell on each other and into the river," he told local media. One local MP, Kalyanji Kundariya, told media he had lost 12 family members in the accident, including five children.
The Gujarat tourist department describes the"grand suspension bridge" about 120 miles west of the state's main city, Ahmedabad, as an"artistic and technological marvel." Modi, who was due to visit the site on Tuesday, said that he"may rarely have experienced so much pain in my life."
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