Ranveer Singh, a delivery agent in Delhi, was among the migrants trying to return to their homes after they were left without jobs, shelter or money.
New Delhi| A 38-year-old man, who had walked almost 200 kilometres from Delhi to reach his home in Morena in Madhya Pradesh, collapsed and died on the Delhi-Agra highway on Saturday.
Ranveer Singh was a delivery agent in Delhi at a restaurant, and like thousands of desperate migrants workers facing the brunt of lockdown who are left stranded without work, food or money and no means to reach their native villages, he also decided to walk on foot to cover hundreds of kilometres to reach his village.
According to the police, he was still 100 km away from his village in Morena district, when he complained of chest pain and soon collapse after speaking to two men who were accompanying Singh.
A local hardware store owner Sanjay Gupta rushed to the victim around the Kailash turning off the National Highway-2.
Ranveer Singh had started walking to his village in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, around 326 km from the national capital.
When he collapsed on the highway in Agra in Uttar Pradesh, a local shopkeeper offered him tea and biscuits. But soon, Ranveer Singh had a heart attack and died. The man was about 80 km away from his village.
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“The heart attack was probably caused because of exertion in walking to Agra from Delhi. The post-mortem was conducted on Saturday and body was handed over to family members who turned up from the village,” said Arvind Kumar, the Station House Officer of Sikandra police station.
Police have informed the dead man’s family after getting their contact details from his phone. He was a resident of Bad Ka Pura in Ambah area of Morena and had to walk 100 more km to reach his village, a police officer said.
On Saturday evening, thousands of migrant workers crowded into bus terminals around the national capital trying desperately to return home across the border in Uttar Pradesh.
The centre’s “total lockdown”, meant to halt the spread of a highly infectious novel coronavirus that transmits rapidly in crowded spaces, had suspended all interstate bus and railway services, leaving migrants and their young families no option but to walk hundreds of kilometres foot in searing heat.
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