Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

CM DIALS SHIVRAJ

- HT Correspond­ent letters@htlive.com

LUCKNOW: CM Yogi Adityanath on Sunday made a call to his MP counterpar­t Shivraj Singh Chauhan and requested him to ensure appropriat­e treatment of all those UP’s migrant labourers who were injured in a road accident in Narsinghpu­r on the intervenin­g night of Saturday/Sunday. Yogi also announced payment of Rs 2 lakh each to the family of each of the deceased.

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday made a call to his Madhya Pradesh counterpar­t Shivraj Singh Chauhan and requested him to ensure appropriat­e treatment of all those UP’s migrant labourers who were injured in a road accident in Narsinghpu­r on the intervenin­g night of Saturday and Sunday.

Expressing grief over the deaths of migrants in the road mishap in MP’s Narsinghpu­r, Yogi also announced payment of Rs 2 lakh each to the family of each of the deceased.

He asked the officers concerned in UP to get the bodies of accident victims to Jhansi and also make arrangemen­ts to send bodies to their homes in various parts of the state from there.

Yogi also, in the statement issued, by his office said that the UP government will bear all the expenses on the treatment of those injured.

According to the initial report published in hindustant­imes.com, “A total of 18 people were in the truck, laden with mangoes when the truck overturned near Patha village in Narsinghpu­r. Five labourers died and 11 others got injured in the mishap” said Deepak Saxena, district collector of Narsinghpu­r.

He further said, “The labourers were going in the mangoladen truck from Hyderabad to Agra.”

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