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At least 10 people were killed in the Indian city of Kolkata on Thursday and 150 were feared trapped when a flyover under construction collapsed onto traffic moving along the street below, police said.
Firefighters and residents were trying with their bare hands to rescue those trapped under the wreckage of the metal-and-cement structure that came down near Girish Park in a teeming commercial district.
Television footage from the scene showed a bloody hand reaching out from under what appeared to be a massive girder. People were trying to hand bottles of water to survivors pinned underneath.
"The condition is pathetic. At this moment no one has any clue how many people are trapped," said Raichand Mohta, a police officer at the scene.
A Reuters witness said paramedics had worked to free people from a minibus taxi that was crushed in the collapse.
There was little sign of a coordinated rescue operation, with access for heavy lifting equipment restricted by the proximity of buildings on either side of the flyover and heavy traffic.
The flyover has been under construction since 2009 and has missed several deadlines for completion.
Construction projects in India have long been plagued by lax safety standards.
vini Thursday, 31 March 2016 04:36 PM
Indians cannot even build a flyover but they are determined to build a bridge between India and Sri Lanka.
Nuke Thursday, 31 March 2016 05:09 PM
And they want to build sea tunnel and bridge across palk straight. They think they can do evrything and this is the result of it
Dasa Friday, 01 April 2016 04:59 AM
Ha haaaa !!! Let's give all development projects to India
sacre blieu Friday, 01 April 2016 12:32 PM
They must have learned from us how to do short cut contracts to make huge profits. We should also take a second look at our flyovers too.
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