MORBI: Bodies piled up overnight in graveyards and crematoriums of this historical Gujarat town, famous for its clocks and ceramics, as the toll in Sunday's suspension footbridge collapse mounted to 134 — including 48 children — amid a continued search for more victims and improbable survivors in the algae-covered Machchhu river.
Nine people were arrested, two of them managers of the Oreva Group that recently renovated the 143-year-old British-built footbridge, and charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder after the district administration filed an FIR that doesn't name the company or any individual. Two ticketing clerks, as many sub-contractors and three security guards make up the rest of the list.
IGP (Rajkot range) Ashok Yadav said the arrests were based on the known facts of the case so far, declining to say why nobody from the senior management of Oreva, makers of Ajanta clocks, had been mentioned in the FIR. “Whoever is found responsible will be named as the probe proceeds,” he said.
