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JAMMU: Rescue workers pulled retired different assemblage from the debris of a collapsed span successful Thuther country of Bantalab successful Jammu, taking the toll to three. Govt has initiated a probe and suspended 2 engineers.The mishap took spot erstwhile workers were engaged successful repair enactment connected the bridge, which had developed cracks pursuing the 2025 flash floods, and got buried nether the rubble aft a conception of the operation abruptly gave distant connected Friday. While 1 worker, Tarsem Lal, was rescued and hospitalised with injuries, 3 bodies were retrieved during a 12-hour operation. The deceased were identified arsenic Panchu Sethi (50) from Odisha’s Ganjam district, and Harish Kumar (28) and Raj Kumar (30), some from Chhattisgarh.“An authoritative of the Fire and Emergency Department, Mohammad Jaffar, was besides injured aft being deed by a boulder during the rescue operation, and has been admitted successful hospital,” said an official.Soon aft the span caved in, teams comprising police, Army, SDRF, NDRF and the civilian medication rushed to the tract and launched a coordinated rescue operation. Heavy machinery, including JCBs, was pressed into work to expedite the hunt and rescue efforts.
Deputy CM Surinder Kumar Choudhary visited the spot astatine midnight and ordered the suspension of adjunct enforcement technologist Sahil Verma and inferior technologist Sajad Mir, pending enquiry nether Rule 331 of the J&K Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules-1956.Govt has besides constituted a three-member enquiry committee that has been tasked to probe each aspects of the incident, including immoderate dereliction of work by departmental officers, and hole responsibility, particularly of the executing agency. The committee volition besides urge enactment against those responsible, and suggest measures to forestall specified incidents successful future. It has been directed to taxable its study wrong 15 days.
