Tripura: Three killed, nine injured as steel bridge collapses

Tripura: Three killed, nine injured as steel bridge collapses.  As numerous as three people have kicked the bucket and nine others were left truly harmed as a steel span imploded when a wood loaded truck was going through it at Kanchanpur sub-division under North Tripura locale, police said.

As indicated by police, the vehicle (TR-02-A-1526) conveying the wooden logs was going to Laljuri from Machmara on Wednesday morning. When the vehicle went on the extension it imploded; resultantly, the vehicle fell into the canyon.

The departed people have been distinguished as Bhagya Chakma (28) and Ranjit Chakma (32) of Netaji Nagar and driver Arun Nath (42) of Kumarghat.

Nine individuals were harmed. They have been owned up to Dharmanagar District Hospital.

On getting the news, Kanchanpur sub-divisional justice Shubhashish Acharya and Kanchanpur police OC Krishnadhan Sarkar raced to the spot.

As indicated by local people, the steel span was fabricated quite a long while back.

In any case, the scaffold has not been fixed in that frame of mind past. Local people guaranteed that it was because of the heavyweight of the vehicle that caused the episode.