An overcrowded footbridge has collapsed right into a rocky river in Indian-controlled Kashmir whereas thronged with greater than 100 individuals celebrating a competition, killing a 10-year-old woman and injuring a minimum of 70 individuals, authorities say.
Police and aid groups rushed to the low steel bridge, which couldn’t stand up to the load of the revellers celebrating the spring harvest season, civil administrator Joginder Singh in Udhampur district stated.
The slender bridge’s most capability was about three dozen, he stated.
The woman died after being taken to a hospital and a minimum of seven individuals had been in important situation, Singh stated.
The bridge’s pink railings and inexperienced deck lay twisted throughout the riverbed following the collapse, as onlookers stood on the banks or waded into the water.
A white-domed Hindu temple sat close by beside the river, flanked by forested hills.
On the hospital, a younger girl grimaced in ache as she was carried by two civilians who seemed to be serving to with the rescue efforts.
Shoddy development and over-loading are sometimes accountable for bridge and constructing collapses in India.
In October, a minimum of 132 individuals died when a century-old suspension bridge collapsed right into a river within the western state of Gujarat, sending lots of plunging into the water.
It was one of many nation’s worst accidents prior to now decade.
Kashmir sits excessive within the rugged Himalayan mountain vary, and India and Pakistan every declare the divided territory in its entirety.
