Railway minister Piyush Goyal said the local train services will be restored completely by tonight. He also said that all the bridges on the Mumbai suburban railway line will be reviewed by IIT.
Addressing the media after a over-bridge collapsed at Mumbai’s Andheri Station, Railway Minister, Piyush Goyal said that around 500 railway employees are working to restore western rail lines.
Goyal, visited the accident site in the afternoon in Andheri, said that an ad hoc compensation of Rs 1 lakh will be given to the five injured and their treatment expenses will be taken care of by the Railways.
Five people were injured as a foot-over bridge near the Andheri railway station collapsed on Tuesday morning, stalling train services on the Western line of the Mumbai suburban railway system. The bridge is part of the Gokhale bridge on SV Road that connects Andheri West to East.
The Mumbai Fire Brigade, city police and ambulance services were deployed at the site to remove the debris.
The weather bureau’s forecast on Tuesday morning said that intermittent rain is likely to occur in the city and its suburbs with heavy rain at isolated places throughout Tuesday and Wednesday.
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