A person was killed and several workers were injured after an under-construction bridge collapsed in Bihar’s Supaul.
A slab of an under-construction bridge being built over the Kosi River collapsed on Friday morning.
“One person has died and nine injured as a portion of an under-construction bridge collapsed near Maricha between Bheja-Bakaur,” Supaul DM Kaushal Kumar told ANI.
The injured were rushed to a hospital for treatment.
The incident comes months after the collapse of an under-construction bridge in Bihar’s Bhagalpur, which had sparked a war of words between the state government and the opposition BJP. The four-lane bridge, built at an estimated cost of Rs 1,700 crore, had come crashing down like a house of cards in June 2023.