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BHOPAL/ BARWANI: Demanding food and transportation, hundreds of migrant workers on Thursday pelted stones near Sendhwa on the Madhya Pradesh-Maharashtra border.
Thousands of migrants, on the way to northern states from Maharashtra amid the coronavirus crisis, are pouring in at Sendhwa in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani district.
Eye witnesses said that groups of migrants created ruckus, alleging that government machinery made no arrangement of food and transportation for them.
In the afternoon, some of them pelted stones, but nobody was injured in the incident, witnesses said.
Shailesh Tripathi, who reached Barwani from Pune, said migrants, which included pregnant women, senior citizens and children, were facing a lot of hardship in the absence of food, water and transportation facilities.
A large number of migrants were wait