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Locals claimed that the span adjacent the Ganga ghat was built successful 1874 by the Avadh and Rohilkhand Railway Limited Company successful the Shuklaganj country of Unnao district. (PTI Photo)
A information of a historical span connected the Ganga connecting Kanpur and Unnao, built during the British period, fell into the stream successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, locals said.
The bridge, which had been closed for astir 4 years, collapsed astir 2 am. No untoward incidental was reported owed to the incident, they said.
Locals claimed that the span adjacent the Ganga ghat was built successful 1874 by the Avadh and Rohilkhand Railway Limited Company successful the Shuklaganj country of Unnao district.
Ashu Awasthi, a local, said, “A information betwixt 2 pillars of the span fell into the Ganga aft 2 am. No 1 was wounded arsenic the span was closed for traffic.” Another local, Panda Raju, said the span was closed successful 2021 aft cracks appeared.
“At that time, it was known done the media that heavy cracks were recovered successful rooms 2, 10, 17 and 22 from the Kanpur side, owed to which the medication wholly closed the span connected April 5, 2021,” helium added.
As the information of the span collapsed successful the Ganga, a fig of locals made their mode adjacent the spot and made videos of the structure. The clips and photographs of the operation soon recovered their mode to societal media.
While determination was nary contiguous connection from immoderate authorities assemblage implicit the matter, Krishna Kumar, who lives on the riverbank, said immoderate officers came to the tract successful the greeting successful a Lucknow-registered vehicle.
“They went adjacent the breached portion and near aft immoderate time,” Kumar claimed.
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