Pictures of the Matunga Road skywalk in Mumbai went viral on social media after a Twitter user posted several pictures warning about its safety.
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Share this Pic as much as you can..this is Matunga Station Bridge..almost about to fall pic.twitter.com/Rfh5wKbM3y
— Aashiश Joशी (@aashishjoshi00) March 30, 2019
After the tweet went viral, Western Railway wrote to the civic authorities calling for an inspection of the bridge.
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Nice heads up bhai. Send to concerned authorities. @Dev_Fadnavis
— Atindra Shukla🇮🇳 (@ads7506) March 30, 2019
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@mumbaimatterz @RoadsOfMumbai @CMOMaharashtra
— Kailash Trehan (@TrehanKailash) March 30, 2019
Scary
It looks like it may collapse any time.
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Ppl have reported this 2-3 days ago, already acknowledged by Mum Police as well as Railways.
— 🇮🇳 🄰🄿🄾🄾🅁🅅 🇮🇳 (@apoorvc2005) March 30, 2019
Following this, BMC authorities replied that the pictures show a construction joint and the foot over-bridge was safe to use, reported TOI.
Just last month, a foot over-bridge outside CSMT collapsed which killed 6 people and left several injured.
