Mumbai-Goa highway News
The Crane machine mounted on the under-construction flyover was damaged in the collapse incident.
A horrific road accident took place on the Mumbai-Goa highway. In this incident, two trucks collided head-on. Both the truck drivers were injured in the accident
The accident took place on the Mumbai-Goa highway in Maharashtra's Raigad district when the victims, all relatives, were going in a van to Guhagar town in Ratnagiri district.
The road-clearing operation is underway by the police and administration. Meanwhile, the Indian Meteorological Department predicted "heavy to very heavy" rainfall at few places for the next few days in Konkan and other parts of south Maharashtra.
Almost 10 months after at least 40 people were killed when an old road bridge was washed away in heavy rains near Mahad in Maharashtra's Raigad, a new bridge in its place was inaugurated at the same site here on Monday.
Seven youths from Mumbai were killed and one injured when their vehicle rammed into a tree on the Mumbai-Goa highway on Wednesday morning, police said.
Normal to heavy rainfall has disrupted normal life in the city in the last 48 hours with the weatherman predicting rainfall at regular intervals in the next 24 hours.
On Thursday, wreckage of Rajapur-Borivali MSRTC bus was retrieved approximately 170 and 200 meters from the collapsed bridge.
The ill-fated British-era bridge across Savitri river, whose collapse claimed 26 lives, was to be dismantled in December this year as part of Mumbai-Goa Highway expansion project, Maharashtra Government Wednesday said as search continued for people who went missing after the crash.
On the night of August 2, the bridge constructed over Savitri river on the Mumbai-Goa highway collapsed.
Eight more bodies were recovered on Friday during the search operation in the Savitri river, where two state-run buses and some private vehicles were swept away after a British-era bridge collapsed in Mahad, taking the toll in the tragedy to 22 as hopes for survivors faded.
At least 22 people went missing after two state-run buses were swept away in flooded Savitri river when a British-era bridge collapsed on the Mumbai-Goa Highway near here in Raigad district but no survivors or bodies have been found after a gruelling 14-hour search and rescue operation.
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