New Delhi: In two separate accidents in the last 24 hours, four migrant labourers and members of their families – all on their way home in the course of the lockdown – have reportedly died in Uttar Pradesh.>
According to a tweet by Indian Express reporter Asad Rehman, a two-year-old was among the three who were killed when a mini-truck carrying more than 50 migrant workers and their families from Ahmedabad in Gujarat met with an accident at Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat. Twelve people are reportedly injured seriously.>
Meanwhile, a migrant labourer returning from Chhattisgarh on bicycle died after being hit by a truck, police said on Wednesday.>
Forty-year-old Mohan, a resident of Saharanpur, was with three others when the accident took place on Tuesday evening.>
The labourers had stopped on the roadside near Kalchiha village here to take rest when they were hit by a speeding truck, police told the news agency PTI.>
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All the four suffered injuries in the accident and taken to a community health centre in Mau village, where Mohan died.>
Mau community health centre superintendent Shekhar Vaishya said condition of the three other workers was stable. The truck has been seized and its driver arrested, the police said.>
The workers, hailing from Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts, were working at a jaggery factory in Raipur in Chhattisgarh. The factory was closed due to the ongoing lockdown enforced to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.
(With PTI inputs)>