Amid several videos showing the woes of migrant workers returning to Bihar these days, a chilling video went viral on social media on Wednesday. In it, a half-naked baby is seen playfully tugging at a sheet partially covering its dead mother at the Muzaffarpur Railway Station in Bihar. The woman, said to be Arvina Khatun, 35, is seen lying dead on the platform, with two bags stuffed with her belongings kept away from her.
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An older child, with a water bottle in hand, too appears for a moment in the video. “The woman had reached the Muzaffarpur Railway Station on May 25 along with her two children, sister and brother-in-law. She was from Katihar district. Only the doctor can say how she died,” Government Railway Police official Ramakant Upadhayay told local journalists.
A local journalist in Muzaffarpur told The Hindu that the woman and her two small children had arrived by