Two migrants killed, 47 wounded in 4 separate road accidents in Uttar Pradesh

Shahira Naim
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, May 18

Despite the sealing of Uttar Pradesh borders, two migrants were killed and 47 others were wounded in four different road accidents in the state in the past 24 hours.

Two migrants died when the driver of a speeding pickup lost control of his vehicle, causing the vehicle to overturn on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway.

Two accidents occurred in Kushinagar in eastern Uttar Pradesh where buses taking migrants from Noida and Himachal Pradesh to Bihar rammed into trucks. In the first accident on Sunday morning, a bus taking migrants from Himachal Pradesh to Motihari in Bihar, hit a truck on the national highway near Mahuawa Kanta under Patherwa police station.

Around a dozen migrants were injured in the accident of whom six were serious. They have been admitted to Community Health Centre (CHC), Fazilnagar. The four serious patients have been referred to the Kushinagar district hospital.

Later, a dozen migrants were injured when another private bus carrying 40 migrants from Sector 5 Noida to Navgachiya town in Bhagalpur district in Bihar hit an onion-laden truck on the same highway under the same police station at Doomarbhar village at around 9 pm on Sunday.

The injured were admitted to the Tumkahi CHC where those with minor injuries were later sent to Bihar in another bus.

Seven of the seriously injured have been referred to BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur.

A bus carrying 27 migrants from Pune to Siddharth Nagar met with an accident in Ayodhya---the fourth accident on Monday. Twenty-one people were wounded. Seven have been admitted to the district hospital of whom two, including a woman, have serious injuries, confirmed Ayodhya District Magistrate Anuk Kumar Jha.

In a press statement, Chief Minister Adityanath expressed grief at all the accidents and instructed the district authorities to ensure the medical treatment of the injured.