Gujarat bridge collapse Updates: Nine people have been arrested in the case so far.
At least 141 people died when a pedestrian suspension bridge collapsed in India’s western state of Gujarat.
A local official said most of those who had died were women, children or elderly. The bridge in Morbi had been reopened just a week ago after repairs.
Questions are being asked in India after a popular foot bridge collapsed, plunging scores of pedestrians into a river in the western state of Gujarat.
The horror in the town of Morbi on Sunday evening is one of the worst tragedies in India for years, killing 135 people, most of them women, children and the elderly.
Officials said teenagers, women and older people were the majority of those killed and injured when the century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river.
Police in the Indian state of Gujarat have arrested nine people in connection with the collapse of a pedestrian bridge that killed at least 141 people.
Four of those detained are employees of a firm contracted to maintain the bridge in the town of Morbi.
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