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Cafe-goers could have been killed
Updated On: 04 August, 2009 08:58 AM IST | | Chetan R
Official says they were lucky to have got away with only minor injuries. The metro tragedy would have been greater if the steel bars had fallen towards the popular coffee joints on the other side
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Official says they were lucky to have got away with only minor injuries. The metro tragedy would have been greater if the steel bars had fallen towards the popular coffee joints on the other side
Coffee-lovers hanging out at a cafe on CMH Road missed death by a whisker yesterday, according to a senior engineer at the metro site there.
Two labourers were injured when reinforcement steel used for a Namma Metro pier on CMH Road collapsed. However, the casualties would have been far more if the 72 reinforcement steel bars, about 42 feet in length, had fallen towards Coffee Day and Sreedevi Hotel, both popular hangouts, he said.
"We are shocked but lucky that there are no serious casualties," said the engineer at the site. "The collapse would have killed at least 4-5 if it had fallen towards Coffee Day. This is the first time this has happened since work began on CMH Road."
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