New Delhi, July 12 - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday condoled the death of the five people killed when an underconstruction bridge of the Delhi Metro collapsed in south Delhi and said the Metro construction was being done in haste to meet the deadline of 2010 Commonwealth Games. Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, however, has denied the allegation.

'It is the second (such) incident in the past 10 months and we have to find out who is responsible for it. The Metro construction is being done in a hurry to meet the deadline of the Games as the Delhi government is lagging behind. We shouldn't work in haste just because the Commonwealth games are coming up,' Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, told reporters.

The bridge that collapsed Sunday was part of an elevated section of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) new route on the Central Secretariat-Badarpur section. The incident took place at around 5 a.m. at the construction site at Zamrudpur near Amar Colony.

A launching girder along with a portion of the bridge set up on pre-fabricated pillars collapsed.