A man was crushed to death by a massive slab of concrete in India, according to video and local reports.
“One person was killed after a portion of an under-construction bridge collapsed in Palanpur town in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district on Monday and a search and rescue operation at the site was underway, officials said.
Six concrete girders or slabs, which were recently installed on the pillars of the under-construction bridge near RTO check post, collapsed in the afternoon.
A CCTV footage of the incident showed a person abandoning his autorickshaw after realising some portion of the bridge was about to give way and trying to run to safety but in vain as he got crushed under huge concrete slabs.
Those at the site claimed there are two more persons in the debris as a tractor was also crushed along with the autorickshaw.
Though the construction of the bridge has been going on since some time, the girders that collapsed were launched on the pillars a week back but had not been tied to the structure as yet.”