Kolkata flyover tragedy: Police arrest construction company's 3 officials
According to sources, after sealing IVRCL's Kolkata office at Rajdanga area on Thursday, police detained at least 10 officers of the construction company on Friday afternoon.
After hour-long interrogation, three of them- Mallikarjun (Senior Asistant General Manager), Pradip Kumar Saha (Manager, Structural) and Debajyoti Majumder (Assistant Manager, Administration)- were arrested. The rest are being interrogated.
The under-construction flyover collapsed on Thursday.
The death toll in the mishap has touched 24.
More than 80 were injured and admitted in various hospitals.
A close circuit camera footage showed people, cars, buses, auto rickshaws and hawkers being crushed when the flyover collapsed on them.
Locals rushed to help and rescue people who were trapped under the debris.
K Panduranga Rao of the Hyderabad-based IVRCL termed the incident as "an 'act of God', triggering widespread outrage.
Several people have been pulled out from the rubble while the injured were undergoing treatment in hospitals.
An FIR has already been lodged against the construction organization at Posta Police Station in Kolkata, under IPC sections 302, 307, 427 and 120-B.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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