The carpeting of the Sheikh Hasina bridge built on the Teesta river at Mohipur in Gangachara, Rangpur has been lifted and a hole has been created on the bridge.
As a result, the traffic has to move over the bridge with risk. The administration has already stopped all heavy vehicles from Lalmonirhat to Rangpur.
About 7 feet of carpeting on the north side of the Sheikh Hasina bridge broke during traffic on Friday afternoon. Due to this, daily about 30 thousand people who come from Lalmonirhat to Rangpur for medical and other purposes have to suffer.
Even after the carpeting on the bridge was broken, hundreds of trucks from Burimari land port along with 5 upazilas of Lalmonirhat were crossing at risk. Gangachra Upazila Nirbahi Officer Nahid Tamanna visited the spot after receiving the news.
After talking to the higher authorities, he wrote to the Lalmonirhat Deputy Commissioner and the Lalmonirhat Superintendent of Police to stop the movement of heavy vehicles over the bridge from Saturday. The officials of the local government engineering department visited the bridge on Saturday to repair the Sheikh Hasina bridge. A red flag has been hung at the place where the carpeting has been broken.
Shahjahan Ali, Executive Engineer of Rangpur Local Government Engineering Department, said that the warring course of the bridge has gone up. It will be repaired soon. The main bridge was not damaged.