Seven members of the Jadeja family were returning from a temple in the Indian town of Morbi on Sunday when the children asked to be taken to a suspension bridge, a local tourist attraction that had reopened after repairs.
Around 6:20 p.m., the low-hanging, colonial-era footbridge, which was heaving with hundreds of sightseers,The Jadejas were among at least 134 people killed in the accident, one of India's deadliest bridge collapses, a relative and a family friend said.
"None of the family members' phones were reachable," the cousin said. "They realised something was wrong and then they heard about the bridge collapse." An Oreva spokesperson did not answer calls and text messages from Reuters. The Indian Express newspaper quoted an Oreva spokesperson as saying: "... the bridge collapsed as too many people in the mid-section of the bridge were trying to sway it from one way to the other."
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