A bailey bridge in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, nearly 50 km from the Sino-India border, collapsed when a truck carrying a heavy earth moving machine was crossing it around 9 am on Monday, 2020-06-23. The truck driver and the excavator machine operator were injured as the 40 feet long bridge, built in 2009, crashed under the combined weight of the truck and the machine.
The weight-bearing capacity of the bridge was 18 tonne while the combined weight of the excavator and the truck was 26 tonnes.
The truck driver and the excavator operator have been admitted to a hospital in Munsyari.
Around 15 border villages of Johar Valley have been cut off.
Construction of another bridge will take at least 15 days.
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