14 migrants killed in 2 road mishaps, 60 hurt

Guna/Lucknow, May 14

Fourteen migrant labourers were killed and nearly 60 injured in two road accidents while they were on the way to their homes in UP and Bihar.

In Guna, around 180 km from MP capital Bhopal, eight UP-bound migrant workers were killed and nearly 55 injured when the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus, the MP police said. The truck was carrying nearly 65 migrant labourers from Maharashtra to UP. The bus, which only had a driver, was coming from the wrong side on the Guna bypass road, Superintendent of Police Tarun Nayak said, adding a case had been registered against the bus driver.

The second accident took place in UP’s Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday when six migrant workers walking to their homes in Bihar from Punjab were killed and four seriously injured when a roadways bus ran them over on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway in Muzaffarnagar. Medical reports confirmed the driver was under the influence of alcohol. The bus driver has been arrested, the SSP said. In Lucknow, UP CM Yogi Adityanath announced an ex gratia payment of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each for the seriously injured. — PTI