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Kolkata bridge collapse: Another body recovered from wreckage, toll at 2

| @indiablooms | Sep 05, 2018, at 07:46 pm

Kolkata, Sep 5 (IBNS):The death toll in Kolkata bridge tragedy has risen to two as rescue workers on Wednesday late evening recovered another body crushed under the debris, reports said.

One more person could be trapped inside- dead or alive.

The second victim has been identified as 21-year-old Pranab De, a metro railway construction labourer.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday evening visited the spot and announced compensaton.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha and Souvik Ghosh)


 

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