Vadodara’s ‘death-bridge’: Letters warned of danger; report found it ‘unfit for use’

The Gambhira Bridge collapse in Vadodara, resulting in 16 fatalities, has sparked outrage as it emerges that repeated warnings about the bridge’s unsafe condition were ignored. Despite local leaders’ pleas and reminders following the Morbi tragedy, authorities failed to act, even after an R&B department engineer reportedly deemed the bridge unfit in 2022.