Day after: BMRCL in face-saving move, suspends 3

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A day after the tragic death of a woman and her twoand-a-half-year old child in the metro pillar mishap, the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Wednesday, suspended three officials involved in the construction of the structure. Managing Director of BMRCL, Anjum Parvez said the cause of the accident will be ascertained after a probe.

On Tuesday afternoon, an under-construction pillar of the Metro rail collapsed on a bike on which a couple was travelling with their twin kids. The incident took place near the Nagawara Ring Road. The mother-son duo travelling on the bike was killed after the pillar collapsed on them. The husband escaped unhurt along with his daughter.

"The deputy chief engineer, executive engineer and section supervisor have been suspended," Anjum Parvez said. Earlier, the police named Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC) and others, including two engineers of BMRCL, in the FIR.