Two persons were killed and 32 injured after an iron bridge over the Indrayani river near Talegaon Dabhade town in Pune district collapsed on Sunday afternoon, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.

The injured have been taken to hospital. Six of them are critical, he added.

The chief minister also announced that Rs 5 lakh compensation will be given to the families of those killed in the accident. The government will bear the expenditure of treatment of the injured, Fadnavis added.

The National Disaster Response Force is conducting rescue operations at Maval area’s Kundmala, the tourist spot where the incident took place. Thirty eight persons were rescued from the spot, the response force was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.

Maval MLA Sunil Shelke told the Hindustan Times that the iron bridge over the river is 30 years old. There were around 100 people present on the bridge at the time of the accident, he added.

At the time of the incident, an orange alert for heavy to very heavy rainfall was in place for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad town. The region had experienced heavy rainfall over the past two days.