Another 100+ Asian folks died, this time on the Jokers

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Video Shows Jokers Swaying Bridge as Collapse Kills 140+
https://news.yahoo.com/people-tried-sway-indian-bridge-095424469.html

Video footage shows pedestrians attempting to sway an Indian suspension bridge in the moments before it catastrophical ly collapsed, leaving at least 141 people dead as of Monday.

Rescuers expect the death toll to continue to rise after the bridge fell apart in the western state of Gujarat on Sunday. The majority of those killed were women, children, or elderly people, a local official told the BBC. Almost 180 people were successfully rescued, however, in an overnight operation involving national and state disaster relief personnel and the Indian military. Rescuers on boats plucked victims from the dark waters around the bridge and ferried them to the river’s muddy banks, where volunteers and soldiers waited with stretchers to receive the living and the dead.

The 754-foot bridge over the Machchu river, which was built during British rule in the 19th century, had only been reopened for four days after months of repairs when the tragic incident occurred.

Video footage of the seconds leading up to the disaster appears to show people attempting to sway the crowded structure as others take photos. The cables on one side of the bridge then snap, plunging the crowd around 33 feet into the water below.

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Arrests made over deadly Indian bridge collapse
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/asia/india-bridge-collapse-arrests-intl-hnk#:~:text=Nine%20people%20have%20been%20arrested,people%20on%20Sunday%2C%20police%20said.

Nine people have been arrested over the collapse of a suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state that killed at least 134 people on Sunday, police said.

The suspects are all associated with Oreva, a Gujarat-based electrical appliances manufacturer that performed maintenance on the 230-meter long bridge in the town of Morbi, senior police officer Ashok Kumar Yadav told reporters Monday. The bridge had only reopened last week after repairs.

The nine include two managers, two ticket clerks, two contractors and three security guards, according to Yadav.

The suspects are being investigated for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, said Yadav, who added that a special investigation team was examining the incident.

At least 134 people, including 30 children, died when the narrow bridge collapsed into the river on Sunday evening around 6:30 p.m. local time, as locals in the riverside town joined Diwali celebrations.

Some 200 people are estimated to have been on the bridge at the time, according to Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi, who said a cable at one end appears to have snapped.