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Shattered remains of a truck, carrying almost 65 migrant workers, after colliding with an empty bus, in Guna …read more
NEW DELHI: Seventeen migrants workers they died even when 93 other people were injured in separate car accidents in just 24 hours as they headed home, by bus, truck and on foot, to cities in Madhya Pradesh, UP and Bihar.
In the first incident, Wednesday night, six migrant workers walking from Haryana to Bihar in a group of 16 were hit by a bus on the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur state highway in UP.
Survivors said they were traveling to Bihar in a truck after they lost their jobs at a factory in Yamunanagar de Haryana when UP police stopped the vehicle and asked them to “return to their place of origin”. After taking refuge in an ashram in Saharanpur For a day, they decided to walk to Gopalganj, their birthplace, when the run-over bus ran over six of them and injured five.
DIG (Saharanpur rank) Agarwal Upender He told TOI: “We have found several cases in which factory owners from neighboring states are withdrawing laid-off workers near the UP borders, telling them that the state government would arrange for their return trip home.”
A government official in Lucknow said that the prime minister Yogi Adityanath He had announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to the injured.
In another accident on Wednesday night, a 36-year-old migrant worker who set out on foot from Gurgaon to Samastipur of Bihar, about 1,200 km away, with his family was hit by a truck near Jharsa on the Delhi-Gurgaon highway .
The man, who lost his job at a manufacturing unit after the shutdown, had made several attempts to secure tickets for his family on a special Shramik train, but was unable to do so, after which they decided to walk home.
Meanwhile, early Thursday, eight migrant workers died and 50 others were injured when a truck traveling from Maharashtra to UP collided with a bus near MP’s Guna. The dead were residents of UP’s Unnao and Raebareli districts who had paid up to Rs 4,000 per head for the truck trip.
Also in Bihar, a bus carrying immigrants collided with a truck Thursday morning, killing two and injuring more than 24, five of them critically. The accident took place near Shankar Chowk in the Samastipur district.
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