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Calcutta: Failing to return home due to lack of money, a young migrant worker from West Bengal committed suicide in Kerala on Saturday morning.
Asif Iqbal Mondal (22), a resident of Shiropara in Domkol in Murshidabad, hung himself from a tree in a mango orchard in Kodanad in Ernakulam.
His companions informed his relative, Asarul Biswas, about his suicide around 9 in the morning. Asif joined a bricklayer worker’s job in Kerala six months ago, his father Jamshed Ali said, adding that the job was suspended due to the Covid-19 lockdown, after which the owner of the brick kiln he did not pay Asif his dues.
Asarul said: “Asif committed suicide in complete frustration after he was unable to return home on the” Shramik Special “train recently from Kerala as he had no money. He became depressed after learning that no additional train would go from Kerala to West Bengal Breaking into tears, she repented as she spoke to us on the phone that she could never go home again. “
SP (Murshidabad) K. Sabari Rajkumar said that Ernakulam District Police were contacted to bring the body of the worker here.
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