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Kolkata flyover tragedy: Rescue operations over, official death toll at 24

All those who were trapped underneath the debris have been pulled out.

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Army and NDRF personnel carrying out rescue operations at Vivekananda Road in Kolkata on Friday.
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Twenty four hours after a portion of an under construction flyover near Girish Park in Kolkata collapsed, leaving 24 dead and over 90 injured, rescue operations have come to an end.

The rescue operation was carried out by the Army and several teams of the NDRF besides Kolkata Police's Disaster Management Group (DMG) and Civil Defence Group and, Fire and Emergency Services Department. The operation was carried out throughout the night on Thursday, despite facing all kinds of difficulties.

All those who were trapped underneath the debris were pulled out by Friday morning. The entire stretch, which was covered in mounds of rubble has been cleared and the DMG is still at the spot trying to prevent people from going close to the part of the collapsed flyover.

A committee set up to investigate the flyover collapse - comprising municipal body officials, Kolkata Police and construction of flyover experts reached the spot to decide the fate of the remaining flyover.

The police on Friday detained 7 workers in Kolkata in connection with the flyover collapse, according to police sources. The workers are said to have been labour heads at the Kolkata flyover construction site. However, it was not confirmed whether these were indeed employees of IVRCL or independent contractors hired by the company.  

The Kolkata Police raided the residence of a Director of IVRCL but found that he was not there. There were reports that IVRCL employees had fled their office premises in Hyderabad after the incident occurred.

Three FIRs had been filed against IVRCL at Jorasanko Police Station on Thursday but on Friday the legal head of the company denied knowledge of it. "We have no information about the FIRs because they have not been served to us so far," he said at a press conference.

The West Bengal government has announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the dead, Rs 2 lakh for the seriously injured and Rs 1 lakh for the injured.

With ANI inputs.

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