The Navy divers on Saturday located the wreckage of the second ill-fated State transport bus which was one of the two buses that had plunged into the swollen Savithri River after a British era bridge collapsed at Mahad in Raigad district on August 2. Two days after the Navy and National Disaster Response Force personnel a major portion of the wreckage of first of the two busesk the Navy divers located the wreck-age of the second bus 400 meters away from the collapsed bridge where they observed the presence of a strong current of water.
“The wreckage is completely submerged in around 5 meters depth. It is assessed that the wreckage is recoverable. NDRF teams are being informed and crane for recovery of the wreckage is being requested,” a Defence Ministry statement said.
later in the day, the work on the recovery of located wreckage began. However, till Saturday evening, the wreckage had not been fished out by the search teams.
As many as 42 persons had gone missing on the night of August 2 after the two state transport buses and half a dozen smaller private vehicles were swept away in the swollen waters of Savithri river in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of an old bridge that connects Mahad town with Poladpur in Raigad district on the Mumbai-Goa highway.