A metallic structure supporting main concrete pillars at the city’s under-construction first Metro line collapsed in the northwest suburb of Sakineka following gusty winds.
No one was injured in the incident which took place at 11.30 pm on Monday night when work was going on at the construction site of Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar metro rail.
The incident comes two days after an under- construction metro pillar collapsed in Delhi leaving six persons dead. “The metallic pillar erected to support main pillars of the metro route came down last night. No body was injured in the incident,” Amitabh Gupta, additional police commissioner, said.
K P Maheshwari, director of Mumbai Metro One, the consortium building the metro line, said, “It was a temporary scaffolding which we had put up during the construction and it fell due to the strong winds. We removed the debris in two to three hours. Work has resumed at the site”. “We are going to conduct an inquiry into why the structure collapsed and come out with a report,” he said.
Dilip Kawatkar, spokesperson of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the monitoring agency of the metro rail work being undertaken by Reliance Ltd, said, it was not a major incident.
“The workers have just began to erect the pillar and it was in initial stage. We will investigate to establish what led to the collapse,” Kawatkar said.
The city has been lashed by heavy rains accompanied by strong winds since last night disrupting road and rail traffic.
Water logging was reported in many areas across the city disrupting traffic.
