3 migrant workers die in MP accident

nBHOPAL/GUNA: Three migrant labourers belonging to Uttar Pradesh were killed and 14 others injured when a lorry rammed into a pick-up truck carrying the workers on the Agra-mumbai highway on the outskirts of Guna town in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Friday evening.

The accident site was 214 kilometres north of Bhopal, the state capital, police added.

Two labourers died on the spot while the third succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital. The deceased were identified as Mahesh Prajapati, 34, a resident of village Amdai in Azamgarh district, Pramod Pal, 24, and Deepak Prajapati, 35, the last two being residents of Ghazipur district in Uttar Pradesh.

Superintendent of police (SP), Guna district, Tarun Naik said, “Prima facie, the driver of the truck which rammed into the pick-up truck is responsible for the accident. He fled from the spot but he was later apprehended. An FIR was registered against him.”

Three people, including two migrants returning from Delhi, died and two others were seriously injured after the car they were travelling in fell into a gorge in Champawat about 400 km away from Dehradun on Friday, said police. The deceased include the driver of the taxi, a resident of Delhi from where the four migrants from Uttarakhand were returning to the state amid lockdown, said police. Vipin Chandra Pant, circle officer, Tanakpur circle said, “The three deceased were identified as Girish Ram, 28, a resident of Bageshwar district, Suraj Singh, 21, a resident of Pithoragarh and Arun Kumar, 36, driver, resident of Faridabad area of Delhi.”

A 56-year-old worker from Odisha who walked 200 km from Kolkata on his way to Puri died on the road while a 28-year-old migrant worker in Surat who was allegedly injured in police lathicharge died in a hospital, police said. Dhubei Mohanty, the 56-year-old man, slumped to his death on Odisha-bengal border.