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All victims of Morbi Bridge Collapse retrieved, no one missing

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All the victims have been retrieved and no one is missing in the Morbi bridge collapse tragedy in Gujarat, said reports.

After a cable suspension bridge in Morbi town collapsed on Sunday, plunging people into the Machchhu river, at least 135 people were killed and over 100 more were injured.

The police confirmed earlier information provided to the Morbi district administration that one person was still missing from the disaster, but they later discovered it to be incorrect.

Up to four of the nine suspects in the incident have been arrested by police and remanded to police custody. Five are still at large.

Gujarat Police had filed an FIR under IPC sections 304 and 308 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against the nine people of the Oreva group, prima facie responsible for the bridge collapse tragedy.

Of the arrested four persons, two of them are managers for the Oreva firm, which threw the bridge open for visitors after seven months of maintenance work, and the other two are employees of a fabrication work contractor.

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