Seven Indian were killed and 24 injured when an under-construction bridge collapsed in Dubai Marina, a new city coming up outside in Dubai.
All those killed or injured in Thursday evening's accident on Sufouh Road were Indians.
Five of the deceased hailed from Tamil Nadu, while one was from Bihar and another from Uttar Pradesh.
Concrete and iron debris could be seen strewn across a wide area near the site of the bridge collapse, the first of its kind in the country.
The police cordoned off the area, blocked the approach roads and diverted traffic as a precautionary measure even as ambulances with wailing sirens and flashing beacons rushed the injured to the Rashid Hospital Trauma Centre.
Eight of the injured are likely to remain in hospital for another one or two days, while the rest have been discharged, B S Mubarak, consul (labour) at the Indian Consulate, told PTI.
Indian officials who visited the accident site as well as the hospital on Thursday night said the police had taken all the bodies.
Dubai Chief of Police Lt Gen Dhahi Khalfan Tamim blamed the bridge collapse on the crane driver and poor supervision.
After inspecting the site, Tamim said, "My tentative assumption is that the bridge collapsed because a crane driver had tried to lift a 1.5 tonne load of steel onto the bridge. The load, however, hit against the bridge columns causing it to collapse."
Seven vehicles and two helicopter ambulances reached the scene and rushed the victims to Rashid Hospital, he said.
