The accident took place in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal around 3:30 am when the bus was on way from Solapur to Nagpur railway station.
Mumbai| Three migrant workers and a bus driver died and 22 others injured after a bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district in the early hours of Tuesday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Kolwan village around 3:30 am when the bus was on way from Solapur to Nagpur railway station where the workers were supposed to board a Shramik Special train to reach their native places in Jharkhand, Addl SP Noorul Hasan said.
Maharashtra: 4 migrant workers killed, 15 injured after a bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck, in Yavatmal, early morning today. The bus was travelling from Solapur to Jharkhand. pic.twitter.com/kEURdmqTOx
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2020
More details are awaited.
There have been a series of accidents involving migrants workers in the nation as they are making their way home amid the national lockdown clamped to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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