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| 2 killed, many injured |
| The heavy scaffolding of the Panjagutta flyover under construction collapsed on Sunday after heavy rain, crushing vehicles.
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| INDIA
, 10-September-2007
2:30:15 AM |
| Two persons were killed and scores injured as the scaffolding of a fly-over under construction caved in near Panjagutta cross roads on Sunday evening, even as heavy rain lashed the twin cities disrupting normal life.
Personnel of the CISF and Railways who joined hundreds of rescue workers were still struggling to clear the heavy scaffolding which fell like a pack of cards, as the holiday traffic on one of the busiest thoroughfares was moving at a snail’s pace. Seven cars and two auto-rickshaws could be seen under the collapsed structure.
Authorities said that Sunday’s 6 cm rain soaked the ground so much that the iron railings on which the pre-frabricated cement segments were installed before being glued together gave way.
“It had a cascading effect and the segments fell on the vehicles moving down below,” said NVS Reddy, Additional Commissioner of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The segments being put between piers 20 and 21 collapsed.
Digging near the site could also have resulted in the collapse. However, GHMC officials did not want to hazard any guess on the cause, saying that only a technical probe by engineering experts could establish the truth.
Police registered a case of negligence against Gammon India officials. The firm is the contractor for the nearly two km long flyover costing more than Rs. 30 crore.
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