Five migrants die in two separate road mishaps

VARANASI/MEERUT: Five migrant labourers died, while 12 others sustained inuries in two separate road mishaps in UP’s Mirzapur and Bulandhshahr districts early on Friday morning. While one group from Mumbai was on way back to Bihar, the other group was moving from Surat towards Bijnor.

In the first incident, three migrant workers, who were on their way to Bihar from Mumbai, were crushed to death by a dumper truck in Mirzapur. The accident took place near Basahi Kala village in Lalganj police station area early on Friday morning.

According to the police, they were part of a seven-member group which had booked a car - a Toyota Innova - in Mumbai to go to their villages in Bihar. Police further said that the driver was feeling tired, so he stopped the vehicle along the road during wee hours of Friday. All of them got down and slept along the road.

That’s then a speeding dumper truck ran over them.

Station officer Lalganj, Harishchandra, said that the driver of the dumper has been taken into custody.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath announced monetary assistance of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of the deceased. He also instructed district administration to ensure best possible treatment to the injured.

In the other incident, two migrant labourers died and at least 12 injured after their vehicle in which they were travelling hit a roadside pole and overturned on Friday morning on Delhi-Badaun highway near Khakhura.

Travelling in a mini truck, the migrant labourers from Surat were going to their native villages in Bijnor. They died when they were barely few hours away from their destination.