The latest entrant to the growing list of India's structural failures caught on camera is from Thursday afternoon. CCTV cameras and spot footage of the disasters are brining these visuals into people's phones and computers everywhere.
A mobile phone video shows a 44-year-old bridge collapsing in Himachal Pradesh's Kanga district owing to heavy flooding and rain. Officials in the area have said that around 76 metres of the bridge on 10 pillars were lost in the flood.
Fortunately, there were no casualties as authorities had noticed cracks appearing in the pillars and had stopped the bridge from being used over the last few days.
In April, a portion of a flyover in Kolkata collapsed killing 27 and injuring close to 80 people. A new report by an expert team of former members from the faculty at IIT Kharagpur suggest that multiple aspects of the construction were at fault.
A little over a week ago, a colonial-era bridge collapsed on the Mumbai-Goa highway and the death toll as of now is 26. Indeed, a report suggests that seven structures have collapsed every day for the past five years, killing 13,178 people between 2010 and 2014.
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