Bhopal: Eleven migrant labourers died and 14 others injured in the last 24 hours in separate incidents like fatigue due to walking a long distance and a road accident in four districts in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
The deaths were reported from Narsinghpur, Barwani, Sagar and Shajapur districts.
Almost all the deceased were travelling to Uttar Pradesh either from Maharashtra, Hyderabad or Karnataka amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
In Narsinghpur district, six migrant labourers were killed and 14 others injured, one of them seriously, when the truck in which they were travelling overturned near Patha village, around 40 kms from the district headquarters on Saturday night, Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Tiwari said.
The victims were headed towards Jhansi, Etah and Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh from Hyderabad in Telangana, he added. “While five labourers died on the spot, two critically injured were rushed to a hospital at divisional headquarters Jabalpur- for treatment, where one of them died around 6 pm on Sunday,” Tiwari added. (PTI)
