Migrant Worker Returning Home On Bicycle Killed In Accident With Truck In UP

A migrant labourer returning home in Uttar Pradesh from Chhattisgarh on bicycle due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown was killed after being hit by a truck, police said on Wednesday.

Forty-year-old Mohan, a resident of Saharanpur, was returning home along with three others on Tuesday evening when the accident took place, the police told news agency Press Trust of India.

The labourers had stopped on the roadside near Kalchiha village in UP's Chitrakoot to take rest when they were hit by a speeding truck, the police told news agency PTI.

All the four suffered injuries in the accident and taken to a community health centre in Mau village, where Mohan died.

Mau community health centre superintendent Shekhar Vaishya said condition of the three other workers was stable.

The truck has been seized and its driver arrested, the police said.

The workers, hailing from Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts, were working at a jaggery factory in Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

The factory was closed due to the ongoing lockdown enforced to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.
 

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