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At least eight migrant labourers died and over 54 suffered injuries after the truck they were travelling in was hit by a speeding bus in Madhya Pradesh's Guna area in India early this morning.
The truck with around 70 labourers was on its way to Uttar Pradesh from Maharashtra, when it had a head-on collision with a speeding bus on a bypass road at Guna in India at around 3 am, local police said.
The bus was travelling from Guna to Ahmedabad, the police said, adding that only a driver and a cleaner were travelling in it.
"The incident took place in Guna bypass road. The labourers were travelling from Mumbai to their hometown in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. A bus was travelling from Guna to Ahmedabad. Three people have minor injuries. We are making efforts to send them to Unnao," said a police official.
In another tragic incident, six migrant workers were run over by an Uttar Pradesh government bus on a highway in the state's Muzaffarnagar distric on Wednesday night.
The workers had been walking to their hometown in Bihar from Punjab amid the coronavirus lockdown., police said
The bus was empty and the driver is on the run, they added.
Accidents involving migrant workers who are walking home have been reported from across the country in recent days. Last week, 16 migrant workers in a group of 20 were killed after a cargo train ran over them while they were sleeping on the tracks in Maharashtra's Aurangabad.
(Source: NDTV)
