30 migrant workers killed in India lockdown crashes
NEW DELHI, May 16 (AFP) - At least 30 Indian migrant workers were killed Saturday in road accidents as they tried to get to return to their home villages during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, officials said.
The accidents, in central and northern India, were the latest involving some of the millions of labourers left stranded and jobless by the sevenweek shutdown. Scores have died in road and rail accidents and even from exhaustion walking home. In the most deadly incident, a truck carrying about 40 labourers struck another vehicle also carrying workers and their families that was parked at a roadside cafe in Uttar Pradesh.