Fourteen migrant workers were killed in two separate accidents in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday evening. More than 60 peopl...
Fourteen migrant workers were killed in two separate accidents in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday evening. More than 60 people have been injured.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district, eight migrant workers died and nearly 54 were injured after the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus on Wednesday night, Addition Superintendent of Police TS Baghel confirmed to ANI. The injured have been moved to a district hospital. The workers were also on their way back to their hometowns.
“The incident took place in Guna bypass road,” an unidentified police official told NDTV. “The labourers were travelling from Mumbai to their hometown in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. A bus was travelling from Guna to Ahmedabad. Three people have minor injuries. We are making efforts to send them to Unnao.”
In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, six migrant workers died and at least five were injured late on Wednesday after a government bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur highway, PTI reported, citing the police. The victims were walking back to their hometowns in Bihar from Haryana when the incident occurred.
Senior Superintendent of Police Abhishek Yadav told PTI that they suspected the accused, who has been arrested, was drunk.
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