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MUMBAI: Seventeen workers were killed and three injured as a crane fell on a bridge slab during construction of the third phase of Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Tuesday, an official said.
“Three to five persons are still feared trapped and efforts are on to rescue them,” an NDRF official said.
The injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital, he added.
It was a special-purpose mobile gantry crane used in bridge construction and to install precast box girders in highway construction projects.
The accident took place shortly after midnight on Tuesday near Sarlambe village in Shahpur tehsil, around 80 km from Mumbai, the official said.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the 80 km long second phase of the Samruddhi Mahamarg stretch from Bharvir village in Igatpuri taluka to Shirdi on May 26.
As many as 88 people have 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.
