Indian train runs over 14 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track while walking back to their home village after losing their jobs in a coronavirus lockdown
Police officers examine the railway track after a train ran over migrant workers sleeping on the track in Aurangabad district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
The driver tried to stop the freight train when he saw the workers on the tracks in the western state of Maharashtra, the railway ministry said, adding it had ordered an inquiry.“I have just heard the sad news about labourers coming under the train, rescue work is underway,” Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Twitter.
“They had been walking all night, they were exhausted and fell asleep on the tracks,” a police officer said.India’s eight-week long lockdown, one of the world’s most stringent, has helped contain the coronavirus officials say, but it has hit the poor hard. Modi said on Twitter he was anguished by the loss of lives in the train accident and all possible assistance was being provided.
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