Three Cranes Collapse at India's Largest Container Port

August 5, 2020

Three cranes collapsed at India's largest container port on the outskirts of Mumbai due to strong winds on Wednesday, police and port officials said.

Heavy rainfall has hit India's west coast since Monday night, flooding parts of the financial capital. Wind speeds picked up on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

Image by Ccmarathe/Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 4.0
Image by Ccmarathe/Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 4.0

No one was injured when the cranes collapsed at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said in a Tweet.

The port is still assessing the impact of the collapse on the operations, its chairman, Sanjay Sethi, told Reuters. 

(Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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