Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis visited the site of the crashed foot overbridge (FOB) outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and said responsibility would be fixed within hours for the collapse that claimed six lives and injured 31 people on Thursday.

“A detailed enquiry will follow, and I have asked the municipal commissioner to conduct a preliminary enquiry and fix responsibility by this evening itself,” the Chief Minister said, after visiting St. George Hospital, where several injured have been admitted.

The Chief Minister’s Office confirmed it had received a report from the commissioner late in the evening recommending action against several officers, including suspension of two, officials said.

At the crash site in the morning, the CM directed police and railway officials to ascertain the cause of the collapse at the earliest. He later went to GT Hospital and interacted with the injured. “It is a setback to the State machinery that this crash has taken place despite an audit of the structure a few months ago,” he said.

Senior police officials accompanying the CM said they had briefed him of the likely causes, including the weak welding work which gave way due to pressure at the structure joints. “We have apprised him of what could have led to the collapse of the FOB,” a senior police officer said.

Meanwhile, structural consultant D.D. Desai’s Associated Engineering Consultants and Analysts Private Limited, in its last report, had declared the FOB in ‘good condition”.

The consultant had ruled out the other two options: bad condition (requiring minor repairs) and worst condition (requiring a deeper structural audit) during the assessment of the FOB six months ago.