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At slightest six workers were killed and 2 others are feared trapped aft an under-construction span collapsed during a tempest successful Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur territory precocious connected Thursday (May 28, 2026).
The bridge, being constructed betwixt Morakandar and Kandaur villages implicit the Betwa River, collapsed portion labourers were moving astatine the site. According to officials, a radical of workers had taken structure beneath a hydra crane amid dense rainfall erstwhile a information of the operation gave way.
“After receiving accusation that a slab had collapsed astatine the under-construction span and that respective radical were trapped beneath it, we reached the spot and launched a rescue operation,” said Arvind Kumar Verma, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Hamirpur.
Local residents said operation enactment was underway erstwhile a terrible tempest deed the area. Soon afterwards, portions of the span collapsed, bringing down supporting pillars and trapping workers nether the debris.
Rescue operations were continuing astatine the site, with authorities fearing that 2 workers remained trapped.
