The bridge was inaugurated in 2014 by Nitish Kumar…
On Sunday evening, an under-construction four-lane bridge over the Ganga River in Bihar's Bhagalpur crashed down.
This is the second collapse in a year. No loss of life has been reported so far.
The bridge was inaugurated in 2014 by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar which connects Sultanganj and Khagaria districts.
The Chief Minister has issued an inquiry into this incident and said strict action should be taken against the erring officials.
"Yes, I have received the information that 4-5 pillars of the Aguwani-Sultanganj under-construction bridge collapsed.
The administration is in touch with officials of the department concerned with the incident," Bhagalpur District Magistrate Subrat Kumar Sen was quoted saying by news agency PTI.
Talking about the incident, state BJP president Samrat Choudhary alleged that "corruption is rampant" in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government.
In December 2022, a bridge snapped into two and fell into the Burhi Gandak River in the Begusarai district.
No one was injured in the incident as the bridge was yet to be formally opened to the public due to the lack of connectivity.
"Before the inauguration, it collapsed," an official said at the time of the accident last year.
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