The flyover's construction was continuing day and night because its opening was set for March 23.
Six workers in all were working on the pillar when it fell, burying them beneath the debris. Three workers who were rescued from the rubble and sent to the Islamabad Polyclinic Hospital, according to a tweet from the Islamabad police. "One of them died from the wounds. "It was also said that one of the two more employees who were transferred to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences passed away.But, one worker amazingly pulled out.
Less than a week after the shuttering of the bridge broke apart, killing two workers and injuring three more, the girders of a flyover under construction in the Bhara Kahu neighborhood of Islamabad collapsed on Thursday.
In a tweet, the Islamabad police acknowledged the event and noted that there were no casualties or injuries.
In a tweet from Islamabad Police, it was said that the girders of a bridge that was still being built had fallen.
It further stated that police and emergency services were there to maintain traffic flow. Unverified CCTV footage that has been circulating on social media shows the enormous concrete girders of the flyover toppling over, colliding with another, and then collapsing completely only missing a pedestrian.
The second failure in a week.Two persons were murdered and three others were wounded when a pillar of the same bridge collapsed on February 25.
Officials from the police and administration told Dawn at the time that it would be challenging for them to explain the incident's cause since it required specialized knowledge.
The issue had been brought to the attention of the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, who asked the CDA chairman for a report.
Director Islamabad At the time, Noorul Amin Mengal, who is also the head of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), commissioned an investigation and assembled an eight-person team.
Mengal had stated that a preliminary inquiry had found that two to three large trucks had been moving early in the morning and had collided with the flyover that was still being built.
The committee was established to look into the situation and determine who was at fault, the chief commissioner said, adding that anybody found to be at fault will face legal repercussions. The group was overseen by the deputy commissioner.
On September 30, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif set the groundwork for the Bhara Kahu bypass and gave the National Logistics Cell (NLC) the go-ahead to finish the project in three months rather than four as stated in PC-I.
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