22 Dead and 75 Injured in India bridge collapse
An overpass collapsed Thursday in the Indian city of Kolkata, crushing vehicles below it, killing at least 22 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said.
Maj. Gen. Anurag Gupta, from India's National Disaster Management Authority, said early Thursday evening that authorities didn't then know how many people were driving across the bridge when it fell or how many more remained trapped.
"We cannot predict how many people are still under wreckage," Gupta said. "We can't tell, since it's a bridge and not a building."
Gupta said that in addition to those killed, at least 75 others suffered injuries in the midday collapse in a busy commercial area north of Kolkata's center.
Relatives of the dead will get $7,500; critically injured will get $3,000, official says
The Kolkata overpass that fell had been under construction for the past five years
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he's "shocked and saddened"
Sgt. Saurav Benerjee of Kolkata police had said, at one point, that more than 100 were unaccounted for -- though that only means their whereabouts are unknown, not that that they're all necessarily trapped.
Maj. Gen. Anurag Gupta, from India's National Disaster Management Authority, said early Thursday evening that authorities didn't then know how many people were driving across the bridge when it fell or how many more remained trapped.
"We cannot predict how many people are still under wreckage," Gupta said. "We can't tell, since it's a bridge and not a building."
Gupta said that in addition to those killed, at least 75 others suffered injuries in the midday collapse in a busy commercial area north of Kolkata's center.
Relatives of the dead will get $7,500; critically injured will get $3,000, official says
The Kolkata overpass that fell had been under construction for the past five years
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he's "shocked and saddened"
Sgt. Saurav Benerjee of Kolkata police had said, at one point, that more than 100 were unaccounted for -- though that only means their whereabouts are unknown, not that that they're all necessarily trapped.
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