BENGALURU: A 28-year-old woman and her two-and-a-half-year-old son were eliminated, while her hubby and child sustained injuries, when an under-construction Metro pillar in Bengaluru came crashing down on them on Tuesday.The bike-borne household was travelling through the stretch on Outer Ring Road around 10am when the support cage made of iron rods for the construction of an 18-metre-tall pillar of Namma Metros Blue Line passage collapsed on them.Tejaswini Sulakhe and her son Vihan suffered grievous injuries and were hurried to a health center, where both succumbed.
Her partner Lohith V Sulakhe and daughter Vismitha got away with small injuries.Lohith works as a civil engineer while Tejaswini was a software application engineer with a personal company.
According to authorities, Lohith was driving together with his spouse and kids to Manyata Tech Park, where the twins had actually recently joined a pre-school.
Namma Metro support bar flexes, 2 dead Iron ropes were tied from all four sides to make sure there was no motion of the reinforcements.
However among the wires snapped, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) handling director Anjum Parwez stated.
He also announced a financial help of Rs 20 lakh and said BMRCL would bear the healthcare facility expenses.Police stated a criminal neglect case had been signed up against the site engineers of Namma Metro and the specialist, construction site in-charge officials from BMRCL and others.
However, no individual had been named in the FIR.WatchWatch: The minute when under-construction pillar collapses in Bengaluru