GAUHATI, India — A footbridge spanning a river in northeast India collapsed Saturday, and police said 30 people were feared drowned.
Police and paramilitary forces rescued at least 28 villagers from the river, senior police officer Kyle Aya said. One later died in a hospital.
Many of the people crossing the bridge when it collapsed were women and children, Aya said.
The swift current was hindering rescue operations, the Press Trust of India quoted police as saying.
The bridge crosses the Kameng River in Arunachal Pradesh state. The region is nearly 370 miles north of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state.
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