Dhrapnullah bridge which connect about 200 villages of Jammu outskirts is washed away due to heavy flash flood this morning. The incident took place around 9:30 am, as the bridge fails to bear the pressure of gushing stream of water and due to this it get collapsed.
The people on both sides of the bridge saw whole incident that how this heavy flood collapsed the bridge. Ujagar Singh, a resident of that area, said “And within no time we saw the bridge crumbling. Thank God no one was walking over the bridge at that point of time.
As the bridge now collapsed, many people are stuck now both side of the bridge near Jeevan Nagar area. Now people are helpless and they start walk through a longer route to reach their home or their respected places.
Parmeet Singh, resident of that area said, “Normally it takes me about 10 minutes to reach my place. Now it will take me more than one hour to reach home.
Now people of that are started blaming that the concerned department is guilty for this incident as they used poor quality material in the construction of bridge. Baldev Singh, another resident of that area said that “ within a few years of its construction , this bridge has collapsed. That clearly points towards the usage of poor quality of material in the construction process.”
There the roads in Jammu also filled with rain water and people are now facing a lot of problems. Even from last four hours the power supply is disrupted. Due to this rainfall a man is killed and cattle perished after landslide hit many areas of border belt of Kotli and Sangiotein Mendhar tehsil.
According to police, 35-years old, Mohammed Showket, was buried as a landslide hit in Gola Nari area. Besides this, cattle shed of Haji Mohd Aslem, located in Sangiote village of Mendhar collapsed on Wednesday morning resulting in the killing off several cattle.
Syed Khalid Niyazi Shah is an author at The Chenab Times.