Reportedly one person was killed and traffic came to a standstill for several hours on the Gachibowli-Tolichowki stretch of road in hyderabad after a huge crane weighing 150 tonnes, engaged in the construction of the Shaikpet flyover, collapsed. Meanwhile the incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday.
Reportedly the crane broke down and overturned while lifting a girder at around 3 am on Tuesday. Furthermore the crane operator, 45 year old Gurpreet Singh hailing from Punjab, died in the mishap and his body was taken to the Osmania General Hospital for an autopsy. Further traffic in the area was greatly affected due to the incident as one side of the road had to be cordoned off and several personnel from the traffic police were deployed on the spot.
Moreover as the accident happened just before peak hours, traffic was severely affected. Perhaps several residents of the city got delayed on their way to offices located in the IT corridor as traffic piled up from Shaikpet and extended till the Tolichowki flyover on one side and close to Mehfil Restaurant on the other side. When speaking Golconda SI vijay said, “One person died in the incident. There are no other casualties. Traffic was immensely affected. We have engaged more police personnel to handle the traffic.”
