India once again woke up to another tragedy on Friday just a day after country lost precious lives due to a tragic gas leak in Vizag.
On Friday morning, at least least 14 migrant workers sleeping on rail tracks were run over by a goods train in Aurangabad in Maharashtra on Friday.
Some workers got injured in this unfortunate train mishap which took place during early hours of Friday.
The workers, who were walking to Bhusawal from Jalna in central Maharashtra along rail tracks, were returning to their home state Madhya Pradesh.
They were sleeping on rail tracks due to exhaustion when they were run over by the goods train coming from Jalna, around 40km from Karmad.
“The labourers, working in a steel factory in Jalna, left for their home state on foot last night. They came till Karmad and slept off on the tracks as they were tired,” informed a police official.
Fourteen workers lost their lives in the accident, while two others were injured, he said, adding three labourers who were also part of the group survived as they were sleeping some distance away from the rail tracks.
The injured are undergoing treatment in the hospital.
The migrant workers, rendered jobless due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown and desperate to go to their native places, were walking along the rail tracks apparently to escape police attention.
After the mishap, heart –wrenching pictures of the accident site on social media showed the personal belongings scattered around.
