This comes two days after 16 migrants were run over by a goods train while they were sleeping on the tracks in Maharashtra.
At least five migrants died and 15 others injured after the truck they were travelling in overturned near Patha village in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh late Saturday night.
The group of 20 were travelling in a truck carrying mangoes from Hyderabad and they were headed to Madhya Pradesh’s Jhansi city and a town in Uttar Pradesh.
Officials sad those injured have been admitted to a hospital and two of them are critical.
All of them were tested for COVID-19 after one worker showed symptoms of the highly contagious disease, which has infected over 60,000 across the country and killed more than 2000.
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On Friday morning 16 labourers were killed after they halted for rest on the railway tracks in Aurangabad. They had walked 45 km from Jalna to Aurangabad, and were going towards Bhusawal, another 120 km, on foot in hopes of taking a train.
One of the three survivors, Dhirendra Singh, said they had unfinished work and family back at home and so could not wait any longer to reach MP.
Singh, who is from Maman village in Umaria district of the state said, “We had applied for e-passes a week ago with authorities in MP but got no response.”
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