CHENNAI: A 37-year-old-woman suffered injuries on her head after a metal barricade from the Metro Rail site fell on her while she was waiting for a bus at Tirumangalam in Anna Nagar on Sunday.
According to police, Tamilarasi of Red Hills had visited her sister and was waiting for a bus to get back home when the incident occurred.
According to police, the metal sheet fell from the overhead Metro Rail site because of strong wind. Tamilarasi got nine stitches on her head. This is the fifth mishap related to railway construction sites in the last couple of weeks.
On June 17, L Giridharan, a techie riding a motorcycle was killed after a heavy iron railing underneath a girder fell on his head from the elevated CMRL stretch near the Officers Training Academy, St Thomas Mount.
On June 19, a car driver going on Inner Ring Road along the MRTS elevated rail bridge in Puzhuthivakkam had a near miss after an iron rod fell on his vehicle’s windshield.
In the last three years, five people, both Metro Rail workers and civilians, have lost their lives in various incidents at CMRL work sites in the city.
