Bettiah, June 9 -- A part of a bridge over the Dhanauti River in Majhaulia, Bettiah in Bihar, has collapsed, bringing all traffic across it to a complete halt.

The Rural Works Department of the Bettiah Division arrived at the spot on Tuesday and put up barricades, allowing no vehicles to pass through the affected bridge.

Located in the Lal Saraiya Panchayat, this bridge connected Bakharia to Karamwa. It is a key bridge connecting about a dozen panchayats.

Akash Kumar, Technical Supervisor in Rural Works Department, told ANI, "This is a 35 to 40-year-old bridge. We have put up a 'caution' board and barricades; no vehicles are allowed to travel through the bridge. The public is facing trouble, and we have to resolve this."

A local resid...