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Muzaffarnagar: Six migrant workers, on their way to their homes in Bihar from Punjab, died and four others were seriously injured when they were hit by a road bus on the Delhi-Saharanpur highway in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Thursday.
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6 migrant workers who were walking on the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur highway died after a speeding bus ran over them last night near the Ghalauli checkpoint. Registered case against unknown bus driver. pic.twitter.com/s81e7gpYkH
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The incident took place Wednesday night and Thursday between Ghalauli and Rohana Toll Plaza, about 20 km from here, said Senior Superintendent of Police Abhishek Yadav.
The bus driver has been arrested, the SSP said. Medical reports confirmed that the driver, Rajbir, was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident, station official Anil Kapervan said.
The Uttar Pradesh highway bus was returning to Agra from Saharanpur after dropping migrant workers into their homes.
A government official in Lucknow said that Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed his regret over the incident and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of the deceased migrants and Rs 50,000 to the seriously injured.
It has also asked the Sahranpur Commissioner to conduct an investigation into the incident and fix the responsibility, the spokesperson said.
The prime minister has ordered officials to ensure proper treatment of the wounded and arrangements to bring the bodies to Bihar, he added.
The deceased immigrants were identified as Guddu (18) from Bhojpur, Virender Singh (28), a Patna resident, Harek Singh (52), his son Vikas (22), Vasudev (22), Harish Sahni (42) – all of Gopalganj, the police said. The wounded were rushed to the hospital, they said.
The incident comes days after 16 migrant workers, who were sleeping on the railway lines, were crushed by a freight train in Aurangabad, Maharashtra on May 8.
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