Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 4: The Gujarat government has suspended Morbi Municipality’s Chief Officer Sandipsinh Zala in the wake of the bridge collapse incident that claimed 135 lives, a senior official said today.
The British-era suspension bridge, erected on the river Machchhu in Gujarat’s Morbi town, had collapsed on Sunday evening. Women and children were among those lost in the tragedy.
GT Pandya, the district collector for Morbi, reported that Sandipsinh Zala, the chief officer of the Morbi Municipality, had been suspended by the state Urban Development Department.
He stated that up till further orders, the Resident Additional Collector of Morbi has been assigned the additional responsibility of the Chief Officer. Police have so far arrested nine persons in connection with the incident.
