Three more bodies recovered in Kota

Three more bodies were recovered on Friday from debris of single span bridge over Chambal river which collapsed yesterday, raising the death toll to nine at Dabi-Nayagaon in Kota, a top cop said.

Three more bodies were recovered on Friday from debris of single span bridge over Chambal river which collapsed yesterday, raising the death toll to nine at Dabi-Nayagaon in Kota, a top cop said.

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Three mutilated bodies of labourers were spotted and detached from steel rods from the site by rescuers this afternoon, IGP Rajiv Dasot told PTI on phone from the site.

Of the injured, five were still being treated at two private hospitals of Kota city, he said.

Meanwhile, a team of Naval officers arrived from New Delhi to locate missing labourers in the Chambal river, he said adding as per the eye witnesses, the number of labourers could be 50 or more, he said.

Rescue operation was being done on war footing and the state administration was trying to locate and find every labourer, he said.