11. A newly-made flyover in Kolkata has collapsed during office hours.
Write a newspaper report (within 100 words) on the incident. Use the
following points.
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Points : date and place half a dozen cars and private buses were on the
flyover at the time 23 dead, about a hundred seriously injured
many still trapped under debris rescue work started immediately — area
cordoned off by police
experts arrived
investigation to determine
cause going on.
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At least 21 people were killed and more than 60 injured as two parts of an under-construction 2.2-km-long Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in a congested market area in BurraBazar, north Kolkata, on Thursday afternoon.
A 100-metre (330-ft) section came crashing down suddenly on a crowded street around lunchtime, crushing pedestrians, cars and other vehicles under huge concrete slabs and metal. The death toll is likely to increase as scores of people inside vehicles were trapped under the collapsed bridge.
K.P. Rao, a representative of the Hyderabad-based construction company IVRCL, which was contracted to build the giant flyover, called the disaster an “act of God”, while an FIR has been lodged against the local officials of the company.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said “stringent action” will be taken against the owners of the company assigned to construct the bridge, connecting the central part of the city to the north.