Ten people, including two siblings, were killed while several others were rescued with injuries after multiple vehicles plunged into the Mahisagar river when a section of a four-decade-old bridge collapsed in Vadodara district on Wednesday morning, officials said.

A slab of the Gambhira bridge, which links central Gujarat to the Saurashtra region and is situated near Padra town, gave way, killing 10 individuals, Superintendent of Police (Vadodara rural) Rohan Anand stated.

Footage from the scene showed the entire slab of the bridge between two piers had collapsed. The slab failure caused the vehicles crossing the bridge to fall into the river.