Three people were injured after being hit by a girder of an under-construction bridge over the Sikalbaha canal in Patiya upazila of Chattogram district on Friday night.
The injured -- Mohammad Rabiul, 30, Mohammad Mafiz, 28 and Ferdous, 40, of the area -- were hospitalized soo after.
The accident occurred around 8pm when the rope of a crane snapped while installing girders over the bridge, leaving the three injured, said the executive engineer of the Dohazari unit of the Roads and Highways Department.
Local people, however, attributed the accident to faulty construction work.
A bridge over the Sikalbaha canal was built way back in 1995. The third and fourth spans of the bridge fell on the canal on November 18, 2007.
The Roads and Highways Department bid a tender of Tk21.97 crore in 2009. Later, the government allocated Tk26 crore more for the project, which was scheduled to end on June 30, 2019.
However, the project deadline was extended to June 30, 2020. The deadline had to be extended again due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
