21 migrant labourers going home amid coronavirus lockdown killed in road mishap in UP’s Auraiya

NEW DELHI: In a tragic incident, at least 21 labourers, who were heading home amid the coronavirus lockdown, were killed and several others injured after the truck they were traveling in collided with another truck in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. 

Those injured have been shifted to the hospital. They are migrant labourers and were headed to their home from Rajasthan.

Police and district officials immediately reached the accident site after getting the information about it and started the rescue operation with the help of local residents, who had gathered in large numbers there.

The incident comes days after several migrant workers were killed in two separate road mishaps in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna and in Muzaffarnagar in UP.

At least eight migrant workers were killed and 54 got seriously injured after the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday (May 14) morning. The deceased belonged to Uttar Pradesh and were returning to their home state from Maharashtra amid the coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown when they met with the accident.

In the second road mishap, at least six migrant workers were killed near Muzaffarnagar after being hit by a UPSRTC bus on Wednesday (May 13) night.

The accident took place at Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur state highway at around 11 PM. The victims were from Bihar’s Gopalganj and they were walking back to their home state from Punjab where they used to work as daily wage labourers.

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