RAWALPINDI: Two passersby were injured and three vehicles were damaged after a concrete girder placed carelessly on a footpath collapsed into a nullah at Liaquat Bagh Chowk collapsed on Sunday.
The injured were identified as Mohammad Shahbaz, 22, a resident of Gojra in Toba Take Sigh, and Gul Faraz, 36, of Dhoke Ratta. Faraz was on a motorcycle and Shahbaz was walking towards Raja Bazaar when the incident occurred.
Faraz was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where he was stated to be in a critical condition. However, Shahbaz was stable. The two cars parked nearby the concrete girder were damaged.
The girders, which were to be placed over Leh Nullah bridge for the construction of the elevated metro bus track, have been lying on the footpath for a couple of days. Due to the heavy downpour on Sunday, the footpaths could not bear the weight of the girders, said rescue service and police officials.
Soon after the incident, a large number of people reached the spot. “The way the construction work on the metro bus project has been going on, we feared a disaster but thank God everything is normal,” Muneeb Ahmed, a pedestrian, told Dawn.
According to a doctor at the DHQ hospital, one of the victims suffered a leg bone fracture and was critical while the other had a fracture on his hand.
Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2015
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