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Video | Under-construction bridge collapses in India

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Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Construction Briefing

05 June 2023

Video has captured the moment that sections of a bridge under construction in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India.

The Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge over the Ganga River collapsed on Sunday (4 June).

It is the second time a section of the bridge has collapsed, after part of it collapsed in a thunderstorm in April 2022.

Construction of the four-lane, 3km-long bridge, costing around ₹ 1,700 (US$207 million) started in 2014 and was originally due to complete in 2019.

The bridge was supposed to have the country’s longest extradosed spans and a high-level observatory offering views of the river.

Local authorities said they would investigate the cause of the collapse.

Local authorities bridge collapse construction Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge collapse (June 4) Bridge collapse (April 2022) Bhagalpur Bihar
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