New Delhi
CNN
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More than a dozen employees have been killed after a bridge beneath development collapsed in northeast India Wednesday, the most recent in a string of infrastructure failures which have resulted in a number of deaths within the nation.

The collapse of the bridge within the city of Sairang, Mizoram state, killed a minimum of 17 folks and injured a number of others, in response to its chief minister, Zoramthanga, who goes by one identify.

Video and photographs posted by Zoramthanga to Twitter, now referred to as X, present the damaged construction laying on the bottom, with a thick plume of mud and smoke billowing within the air.

“Deeply saddened and affected by this tragedy,” he wrote. “I extend my deepest condolences to all the bereaved families and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s in South Africa for the BRICS financial grouping summit, additionally provided his condolences to these killed within the incident.

“Pained by the bridge mishap in Mizoram,” Modi wrote on X, providing a sum of almost $2,500 to the following of kin of these killed and $600 to the injured employees.

Mizoram is a hilly, mountainous state close to India’s border with Bangladesh and Myanmar. Its villages and cities depend on a community of unsurfaced roads and single lane tracks, highways and bridges, for connectivity.

Tuesday’s collapse isn’t the primary in current months to make headlines in India, a rustic that has been quickly reworking its infrastructure and spending hundreds of thousands to upgrade its transport network.

In June, a four-lane concrete bridge that was being constructed throughout the River Ganges within the japanese state of Bihar collapsed for the second time in simply over a yr, elevating questions concerning the high quality of its development.

Last October, a just lately repaired suspension bridge gave means within the city of Morbi in Gujarat, killing 135 folks.