British-era bridge on Indian highway collapses, 20 people missing

The two buses were on their way to Mumbai when the older of two parallel bridges on the Mumbai-Goa highway, said to have been built under British rule, collapsed near Mahabaleshwar, media reports quoted eyewitnesses as saying. "The primary reason seems to be the high pressure caused due to flooding of river Savitri due to heavy rains," Devendra Phadnavis, chief minister of Maharashtra state, said on Twitter. Mahabaleshwar is a hill station 230 km (140 miles) south of Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra.