, April 11 -- Traffic movement has remained suspended for the past nine months after a 45-year-old bridge collapsed in Kumrabaria and Maharajpur areas under Sadar upazila of Jhenaidah, causing severe public suffering.

Although the bridge collapsed around nine months ago reconstruction work has yet to begin, said locals.

Local people have have built a temporary bamboo footbridge at their own initiative which has now become risky for use.

Local Union Parishad Chairman Khurshid Alami Mia said the road connecting Kumrabaria and Maharajpur unions locally known as Bishoykhali GC-Nagarbathaan GC via Defolbari road was constructed about 45 years ago.

The bridge over a canal under the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) irrigation project was built by the Loc...