4 migrants, headed home, killed in accidents; 2 die of cardiac arrest in Spl trains

AMBALA/RAE BARELI/ NEW DELHI: Death of migrants on the move seems to be unending, whether it is due to accidents, exhaustion, hunger or other factors. Several of them have lost their lives since the huge exodus began from one part of the country to another in a bid to reach their native places since the time of the lockdown.

Adding to these unfortunate incidents, on Monday evening, four migrants, including a woman and her daughter, travelling thousands of kilometres to their villages, were killed in separate road accidents.

The woman and her daughter, six, were part of a group travelling between Maharashtra and Jaunpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh. They had travelled 1,300 km in an auto-rickshaw for three days, when they were hit by a truck just short of their destination, in Fatehpur, UP.

In another incident on Tuesday morning, a migrant worker from Bihar was killed and another injured after being hit by a speeding car in Haryana. A fourth migrant, cycling home, was killed last night in Rae Bareli.

Two migrants were walking on a road at Ambala Cantt in Haryana when they were hit by an SUV. One died on the spot while the other is in the hospital with serious injuries. The migrants were on their way to Bihar, said the police. The car allegedly swerved at a high speed and went out of control. The driver is missing but the car has been seized.

In the other incident in Rae Bareli, a 25-year-old migrant, Shiv Kumar Das, was cycling in a group from western UP’S Bulandshahr to his village in Bihar when he was hit. Reports suggest the car went out of control after its brakes failed. The driver was also injured and the car was badly smashed.

Two passengers of Shramik Special trains died of cardiac arrest in separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.