BHUBANESWAR: “At around 9 am, all of a sudden we heard a thud and we found a portion of concrete slab had fallen off the over-bridge,” said a man who was selling Dahibara-Aludam under the Jaydev Vihar over-bridge here on Sunday.
Though the area regularly
witnesses heavy traffic, fortunately it was a Sunday and the traffic was thin.
And by the time the slab fell off, nobody was passing under the bridge point
from where the slab fell off, said the vendor. Perhaps at any other time, the
loss could have been anything, he thanked God.
According to the passersby who
were present there, they got afraid after the three-feet long concrete slab
weighing around 1.5 quintal fell from a height of 25 feet. After getting
information from the public, the police reached there and shifted the slab from
the road with the help of the public.
It may be noted that two such
slabs had fallen from the over-bridge a few days back but no steps were taken
make the weak portion of the bridge safe, alleged the locals. However,
personnel of the Simplex Infra which built the over-bridge arrived at the spot
soon after the incident and started work to mend the portion, one engineer of
the company stating that it was normal and happened due to vibration created by
running vehicles.
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