The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation demolished an illegal ramp outside actor Shah Rukh Khans sea-facing Mannat bungalow in suburban Bandra on Saturday, after he failed to respond to a demolition notice, civic officials said.

A 25-member demolition squad with one JCB reached the bungalow and started work at 7 a.m.The ramp was built by the actor to park his vanity van alongside the bungalow.

However, local Bandra residents objected and lodged several complaints stating that the ramp was a hindrance in accessing the Mount Mary Church.

When the civic body did not act, BJP MP from Mumbai North West Poonam Mahajan shot off a letter to Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte, demanding action. Mr. Kunte then directed the civic administration to serve a seven-day notice on the actor.

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CINCINNATI (AP) - A flawed demolition plan contributed to the collapse of a highway overpass that killed a construction worker in Cincinnati last month, the contractor for the construction project said.

The preliminary findings from an independent engineering firm have been sent to federal and state investigators, according to a statement released Saturday Kokosing Construction Company Inc.

"Our engineering firm has told us that it wouldn't work the way it was," Brian Burgett, chief executive officer of Columbus-based Kokosing, told The Cincinnati Enquirer.

The collapse during demolition work to remove an Interstate 75 ramp bridge just north of downtown Cincinnati killed Brandon Carl on Jan. 19. The parents of the 35-year-old father of four from Augusta, Kentucky, filed a lawsuit a week ago Ohio's Department of Transportation, charging negligence and carelessness.

A Michigan truck driver traveling on I-75 also was injured in the late-night collapse when the front of his vehicle was crushed by the impact with the concrete and debris.

Kokosing said earlier this month that the demolition plan was changed just hours before the structure collapsed, but the company now thinks the plan was flawed from the beginning.

The plan was missing key details and didn't say how workers should remove the ramp's concrete road surface, the company said.

"I am very sorry, and all of us are deeply troubled by these findings," Burgett told the Enquirer.

He said the company's internal investigation is continuing and that other contributing factors are being considered.

Kokosing has changed its bridge demolition policy, which will now include oversight from an outside engineering firm. "We now need to do everything in our power to make sure a tragedy like this never happens again," Burgett said.

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation demolished an illegal ramp outside actor Shah Rukh Khans sea-facing Mannat bungalow in suburban Bandra on Saturday, after he failed to respond to a demolition notice, civic officials said.

A 25-member demolition squad with one JCB reached the bungalow and started work at 7 a.m.The ramp was built by the actor to park his vanity van alongside the bungalow.

However, local Bandra residents objected and lodged several complaints stating that the ramp was a hindrance in accessing the Mount Mary Church.

When the civic body did not act, BJP MP from Mumbai North West Poonam Mahajan shot off a letter to Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte, demanding action. Mr. Kunte then directed the civic administration to serve a seven-day notice on the actor.

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THE Davao City Demolition Unit (CDU) is set to give their final warning to vendors who violate the one-third-two-third policy at Bankerohan Public Market Thursday before conducting a demolition operation in the area this week.

CDU head retired Colonel Yusof Jimlani said that they plan to push through the said demolition in the area together with the Traffic Management Center (TMC) on Friday.

The said demolition operation had been postponed since December last year.

"Sa tinuod lang, involve man gud ug bugas maninda sila tungod makapalit sila ug bugas pagka hapon so naningkamot pud ta na mangita ta ug lugar nila na kabalhinan (To be honest, this is about subsistence, they are selling in order to buy food in the afternoon so we are trying our best to look for a place for them to transfer)," TMC chief retired superintendent Rhodelio Poliquit said.

Jimlani also said that the delay was also due to the effect of the recent events that had happened in the country such as the visit of Pope Francis and the Mamasapano, Maguindanao incident.

"The way I look at it, lain man pud gud na after sa mga nahitabo sa Pilipinas mag-demolish ta didto, dili pud ta ganahan na tan-awon ta nila as irreligious (It is not right that after all that happened in the Philippines we will proceed with demolishing there, we do not want them to look at us as irreligious)," he said.

Jimlani said they will deploy a total of 60 personnel for the demolition operation.

As their demolition operations resumed last January 5, he said that they already had 20 confiscations from their operations around the city wherein most confiscated were fruits that have been donated to charity institutions.

Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on February 12, 2015.

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The state's top transportation official says something was flawed in the demolition of the old Hopple Street overpass the first public comments from a state official about last month's incident that killed a construction worker.

"We had a plan and it failed," Ohio Department of Transportation Director Jerry Wray told state lawmakers Tuesday, according to a report by Gongwer, an online-only, independent statehouse news service.

Wray briefly addressed the Interstate 75 bridge collapse incident while speaking to members of the House Finance Committee about the state's $5.9 billion transportation budget proposal. Lawmakers asked Wray questions about crumbling bridge infrastructure across the state, but Rep. Alicia Reece, D-Bond Hill, then asked ODOT's leader about the Jan. 19 Hopple overpass collapse that killed a Kokosing Construction Co. foreman, according to Gongwer.

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Wray told lawmakers ODOT's investigation is ongoing, and the state doesn't know exactly what went wrong yet in the demolition process.

Gongwer also reported Wray said another contractor reviewed the demolition plans.

ODOT officials clarified to The Enquirer on Wednesday that an independent engineer has not yet fully reviewed the plan, and Wray was referring to Kokosing's two engineers who developed, approved and reviewed the demolition plan.

Columbus-based Kokosing is the lead contractor on a $91 million project that is remaking a part of I-75, including building the new Hopple Street interchange.

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