New Delhi: At least 21 labourers were killed and seven were injured after the truck they were travelling in collided with another in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh earlier this morning. The workers were coming from Rajasthan. Those injured have been shifted to hospital.
Amid lockdown, mishaps involving labourers who are walking home have been reported from across the country.
Yesterday, two persons, including a woman, were killed and 14 others injured when a mini-truck in which they were travelling, was hit by another vehicle in the Girthan village in UP. There were 46 migrant workers in the mini-truck and were returning from Mumbai.
In Maharashtra’s Aurangabad, 16 migrant workers were killed last week, after a cargo train ran over them while they were sleeping on the tracks.
On May 14, eight labourers were killed and over 54 suffered injuries after the truck they were travelling in was hit by a speeding bus in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna.
Prior to that incident, six migrant workers were run over by a bus on a highway in Uttar Pradesh.
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