Watch: excavator falls into river after the bridge it had come to demolish collapses

A video from UP’s Muzaffarnagar is going viral on social media where a CAT excavator had arrived to carry out the demolition process of an old bridge which was built over a river.

As seen in the video, during the demolition process, a portion of the bridge falls apart leading to a domino effect which leads to the whole bridge collapsing into the river.

The excavator machine can be seen proceeding with the demolition of the bridge by hammering down one part of the bridge.

However, after the first part of the bridge collapsed, it transpired into a domino effect which led to other parts of the bridge collapsing as well. When the whole bridge collapsed, it took with it the excavator.

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Towards the end of the video, a man can be seen making it out alive out of the collapsing bridge.

As for the driver of the excavator, reports stated that he was rescued subsequently after the chaos escalated.