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24 feared dead as bridge falls

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NK SINGH Bhopal: Over two dozen labourers, including women and children, were feared buried alive when a 40-foot span of a bridge under construction on a busy thoroughfare here collapsed on Monday. Special army and fire brigade rescue teams. helped by local volunteers, had rescued about six persons, including the construction contractor. from the debris by late night. Except the contractor, all of them are in a bad shape. The authorities were unable to say anything about the fate of the persons buried under the debris. It is feared that most of them were killed. Removing the debris was proving an uphill task although cranes were pressed into service. A crowd of over 5,000 persons had assembled around the collapsed bridge by late night. March 4, 1985 Indian Express
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Vibha Mishra brought to Delhi

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NK SINGH

Ms Vibha Mishra, the stage actress who suffered serious burns in Bhopal, under controversial circumstances. Involving top theatre personality, B. V. Karanth, was on Saturday admitted to Safdarjung Hospital.

Ms Mishra, who sustained severe burns and who has developed serious complications, was brought to Delhi by a special Madhya Pradesh Government aircraft on Saturday.

Doctors who attended to her at Safdarjung Hospital described her condition as serious. However, they were making all efforts to save her life.

Medical experts, however, wondered whether it was wise to transport a burns patient in such a serious condition from Bhopal to Delhi. In such cases, the journey could lead to deterioration in the patient's condition. Doctors attending to Ms Mishra at Safdarjung Hospital refused to comment on this issue.

In an unprecedented gesture of generosity to a private citizen, the Madhya Pradesh Government provided the state plane for shifting the 27-year-old actress from Bhopal's Hamidia Hospital to the burns unit of Safdarjanj Hospital.

Besides her mother and a government doctor, Ms Mishra was accompanied in the plane by noted painter J. Swaminathan, the director of Bharat Bhawan's art museum and one of its life trustees.

It is learnt that the Chief Minister, Mr Motilal Vora, decided to provide the state aircraft to fly Ms Mishra following directions from New Delhi.

"I decided to shift her to Delhi following a recommendation made by the doctors treating her", he told ENS. The Chief Minister also called on Ms Mishra at the hospital, for the first time since she was admitted seven days ago, shortly before she was moved.

It is learnt that the local police were kept totally in the dark before Ms Mishra was shifted from Bhopal. They were handed over a letter written by the superintendent of Hamidia Hospital, Dr N. R. Bhandari, informing them of the decision shortly before she was moved from the hospital.

Indian Express 

May 31, 1986





 


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