Anger over £6k compensation offer for victims of India’s deadly bridge collapse, as Modi visits scene


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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed lessons will be learned following the bridge collapse in Gujarat that killed 135 people during Diwali celebrations. As he visited the site of the tragedy in his home state on Tuesday, he promised a "detailed and extensive inquiry" would be launched. The colonial-era suspension footbridge in Morbi was packed with sightseers - many in town to celebrate the Diwali and Chhath Puja festivals - when it gave way on Sunday evening, sending people plunging 10 metres (33ft) into the water. Angered and bereaved families mourned the dead as attention turned to why the...