Road link snapped as bridge collapses
Road communication between Jessore and Narail and some other districts remains disrupted since Thursday as a 48-metre long bridge on Sitarampur Canal at Narail-Jessore Highway in Narail sadar upazila collapsed.
Declared unfit two years ago for vehicles carrying a load of more than five tonnes, the bridge collapsed when an overloaded ten-wheeler truck carrying stone boarded it around 6:30pm.
The driver and his helper managed to escape unhurt. People are now crossing the canal using a makeshift bamboo bridge.
Shafiqul Isalm, executive engineer of Roads and Highways Department, Narail, said the broken part would be reconstructed for temporary use and a tender to build a new bridge will be urgently floated.
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