maharashtra cm Shinde orders probe, announces rs 5l ex-gratia

The death toll in the mishap where a girder launching machine collapsed in maharashtra’s Thane rose to 17 after one more body was pulled out from the accident site on Tuesday morning, officials said. a search and rescue operation is continuing to rescue more people feared trapped under the debris after the crane collapsed on a bridge slab during construction of the third phase of the Samruddhi expressway near Shahpur in Thane district. according to de said in May that the third and last phase would be completed by the end of December this year. As many as 88 people ave lost their lives in road accidents in the last six months on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra, including 25 last month as a private bus caught fire after hitting a divider, an official said. Road officials, the accident took place around 1:30 am maharashtra chief minister eknath Shinde has ordered an investigation into the “unfortunate” incident. hypnosis is cited as one of the causes of the accidents on the six lane wide access-controlled expressway, the state highway police official said. Highway hypnosis or driving hypnosis is a condition when a driver zones out while driving a vehicle without remembering what occurred in that specific period.