Srinagar, April 16 -- Yesterday, however, the familiar grumbling morphed into a different kind of murmur - one laced with shock and grief.A boat carrying mostly school children capsized in the Jhelum river, leaving six people dead and many others missing.

The heart-wrenching wails of mothers and the hollow cries of devastated fathers echoed off the incomplete bridge -a cruel monument to lives cut short.

The bridge has now become a focal point of people's anger who say that an Overpass could have averted tragedy. The residents of Gandbal slammed the authorities for their inability to finish constructing a footbridge that would connect the area with the rest of Srinagar city.

According to reports, thebridge was sanctioned in 2011 next to...