At least 23 migrant labourers killed and 35 others injured in northern India after truck taking them home crashes
Police officers try to control a crowd of migrant workers from other states gathering outside a railway station desperate to return to their homes, in Mumbai, India on May 15, 2020.
The accident occurred before daybreak, when the truck collided with another truck that was parked by a roadside eatery in the Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh state, Abhishek Singh Meena, the top district official said. With no work – and little public transport – many urban migrants attempting to return to their home villages have set out on gruelling journeys on foot or hitching rides in the back of trucks.
On Friday, UP's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered bureaucrats and police officers across the state to arrange buses and taxi cabs to ferry migrants back to their hometowns. No one should walk, cycle or travel by trucks, he said.
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