The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction on Tuesday said the Gujarat government cannot shirk its responsibility for the loss of lives in Morbi bridge collapse and asked whether it should be termed as an "act of fraud, conspiracy or a mere accident".

When a similar incident took place in West Bengal in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had slammed that state government and called it an "act of God", an editorial in the Thackeray camp's mouthpiece 'Saamana' said.