Vasad police station in-charge confirmed that three workers had died while another was undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Anand: Three labourers lost their lives when a makeshift structure collapsed at a site on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train corridor in Gujarat’s Anand district on Tuesday evening, officials said.
District Superintendent of Police Gaurav Jasani said the incident occurred at Vasad village, which is on the under-construction Bullet Train route.
There are reports that a portion of a bridge under construction collapsed. However, the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited, which was executing the project, later said that a temporary structure of steel and concrete blocks being used for well foundation work had fallen down.
The site is near the Mahi River near Vadodara, an NHSRCL official said. A Vasad police station official said that three labourers had died, and another was under treatment at the hospital. In all, four workers were trapped under concrete blocks, and two of them died on the spot, said Anand fire officer Dharmesh Gor.
“One of the victims who was rescued alive was declared dead at the hospital,” he said. According to Gor, the fallen blocks were continuously removed to ensure that no other worker was buried underneath.
As the rescuers used cranes and excavators to remove the concrete blocks under which the victims were trapped, some of the locals too pitched in.
