<p>Mumbai, Apr 29 (PTI): A police constable was killed after a heavy piling rig toppled on him at an under-construction flyover site in Mumbai, officials said on Wednesday.</p><p> The accident, which caused traffic snarl, occurred on the northbound carriageway of the Sion-Panvel Highway in the Mankhurd area on Tuesday night when the constable, Santosh Gopal Chavan, was heading home on his motorcycle, they said.</p><p> A piling rig used for drilling foundation piles collapsed and struck him at the site where flyover construction work was in progress, an official from Mankhurd police station said.</p><p> Chavan, who suffered severe injuries, was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, the official said.</p><p> The constable, attached to Nehru Nagar police station, was on deputation to the east control room in Chembur.</p><p> Preliminary findings suggest that the equipment may have been positioned on unstable soil, leading to the collapse, as per officials.</p><p> Due to the accident, heavy traffic jam was witnessed in eastern suburbs, including on the Eastern Expressway, an official said.</p><p> Movement was slow at Mankhurd new bridge on the north bound due to a crane accident, Mumbai Traffic Police tweeted on their social media handle.</p><p> Authorities have initiated legal action, with the Mankhurd police in the process of registering a case against the contractor for alleged negligence.</p><p> Officials were investigating the role of contractors and site supervisors, while also reviewing whether mandatory safety protocols were followed at the construction site, the police said.</p><p> On April 15, a mobile crane toppled during Metro construction in the Bandra-Kurla Complex. No injury was reported in the incident.</p><p> Earlier, in February, one person died and three others were injured after a slab of the girder bridge of an under-construction Metro rail line collapsed on a few vehicles in Mumbai's Mulund area. PTI ZA DC GK RSY</p><p><i>(This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)</i></p>
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