Food and belongings of migrant workers lie scattered on the highway after the accident, in Auraiya (UP) on Sat…Read More
KANPUR: Yet another desperate journey has ended in tragedy on the side of a highway. Twenty-six more
migrant
labourers fleeing joblessness and hunger will never see home again. They died when a trailer truck carrying sacks of lime and 50 people drove into the back of a stationary DCM truck carrying another 20 people on National Highway 19 in
Auraiya district
,
Uttar Pradesh
, around 3.15am on Saturday. Thirty-six were injured.
The DCM truck, carrying migrant workers from Ghaziabad, had stopped at a roadside eatery near Chirhauli village. The trailer truck driver didn’t see the stationary vehicle. He appeared to have fallen asleep, ASP Kamlesh Kumar Dikshit told TOI. The majority of the