Dhaka, April 30 -- A cargo vessel has rammed the Kalurghat Bridge in Chattogram before getting stuck.

The incident involving the 'MV Samuda-1' ship occurred on Tuesday afternoon.

The ship was coming from the west side of the bridge around 12:30 pm when it hit the structure near its middle, witnesses said.

"We have yet to confirm whether the ship hit the bridge because the wind tore one of the ropes on it or whether it was a mistake by the helmsman," said Jishan Dutta, a bridge engineer for the Bangladesh Railway's Eastern Region. "We found no sailors on the ship."

When the incident was reported, the railway authorities and officials from a contractor company went to the scene to begin assessing repairs, reports bdnews24.com.

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