7 homebound migrants killed in separate accidents in North India since Monday

At least seven migrant workers on their way back to their native places, were killed in separate road accidents in north India, since Monday (May 11).

A migrant labourer was killed while another was seriously injured when a car hit them on the Ambala-Jagadhri highway near Ambala Cantonment in Haryana on Tuesday (May 12) morning, police said.

Workers he was travelling with said they were headed towards their native village in Bihar’s Purnia district from Punjab’s Ludhiana on foot when the incident occurred.

The driver of the car fled the spot along with the vehicle after the incident, the police said, adding that they have got inputs about the vehicle and the driver would be nabbed soon.

The deceased was identified as Ashok Kumar (25). The injured labourer was admitted to the civil hospital at Ambala Cantonment, they said.

One of the labourers, who was part of the group, said around a dozen of them had commenced the journey on foot from Ludhiana two days ago as they were not able to register themselves for boarding one of the special trains of the Indian Railways.

In another incident, four migrants including a woman and her daughter, travelling to their village in Uttar Pradesh, were killed in a road accident. According to an NDTV report, the woman and her six-year-old daughter, were part of a group traveling from Maharashtra to Jaunpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh. They had covered almost 1,300 km in an auto-rickshaw for three days, when they were hit by a truck just when they were close to their destination, in Fatehpur.

In a similar incident in Rae Bareli, Shiv Kumar Das, a 25-year-old migrant worker died in a road accident on Monday night while cycling with a group from western Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr to his village in Bihar.

Reports said that two more migrants were killed on Monday while on their way home to Uttar Pradesh from Telangana after a truck they had hitched a ride on overturned in Gorakhpur district.