Dhemaji:
At least 60 labourers, including some women, were injured, 17 of them seriously, when a concrete bridge collapsed in Upper Assam's Dhemaji district today.
Official sources said that a portion of the bridge between the construction site of Bogibeel road-cum-rail bridge and Silapathar collapsed after a heavy vehicle was trying to cross when the labourers were at work for its repair.
The injured have been shifted to Silapathar public health centre while those seriously hurt are being treated at the Dhemaji civil hospital.
Top police and civil officials of the district are at the spot.