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India’s Catastrophe

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Cranes remove debris of a collapsed bridge that injured 27 workers at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sept. 21 in New Delhi. The bridge had been built at the main stadium for India's upcoming Commonwealth Games scheduled to open Oct. 3.

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Indian laborers continue with construction outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sept. 22 in New Delhi. Disaster struck when a false roof of the weightlifting venue came apart and collapsed on Sept. 22.

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Indian laborers work, some apparently working with their bare hands and while wearing flimsy plastic slippers, to clear debris from the collapsed footbridge at the main stadium on Sept. 22 in New Delhi.

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Workers continue to construct a staircase on a pedestrian bridge outside the main stadium.

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Indian workers dismantle the collapsed footbridge at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sept. 22.

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An Indian woman carries a bowl of cement on her head as she and other workers build a staircase outside the main stadium on Sept. 22.

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Indian security personnel and workers examine the broken footbridge while the suspension cables -- meant to hold the bridge -- dangle in the air at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Sept. 21.

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Indian workers dismantle the collapsed footbridge at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sept. 21.

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Pedestrians walk through a shanty encampment where stadium workers and their families live on Sept. 22 in New Delhi.

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Indian police stand guard on Sept. 22 as laborers walk on top of the planned weightlifting venue for the approaching 19th Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

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Workers continued to sort through the rubble of the collapsed footbridge at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium into the night on Sept. 21.

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