The Morbi B Division Police Inspector PA Dekavadiya in the FIR has alleged that the repair agency and agency management opened the bridge for the visitors without carrying out quality checks or feasibility or load-bearing test.
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As many as 135 bodies were being recovered, 180 persons were rescued and still many people are feared missing till Monday morning, after a suspension bridge collapsed on the Machhu river in the Morbi town of Gujarat. The search operation is likely to continue for another 24 hours, police said.
Nine persons have been arrested so far in connection with the collapse of the suspension bridge over Machchu river in Morbi district of Gujarat, which claimed 141 lives on Sunday evening, police said on Monday.