Moving train crushes 14 Indian migrant workers sleeping on track to death

Tragedy struck in the Maharashtra state’s Aurangabad district of India when a goods train crushed no fewer than 14 migrant workers who were sleeping on the track on Friday.

India’s railway ministry and media said that the victims were apparently on their way to their home villages when the tragic incident as the driver tried to stop the freight train when he saw the labourers on the tracks in the western state of Maharashtra, to no avail.

“I have just heard the sad news about labourers coming under the train, rescue work is under way,” Railway Minister Piyush Goyal who has ordered an inquiry into the incident said on Twitter.

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Under the lockdown, all public transport has been suspended so migrant workers heading home often have to walk long distances to get there.

Reports say tens of thousands of people have been walking home from India’s big cities after losing their jobs because of a lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus since late March.

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