Lockdown: Migrant worker returning home in Uttar Pradesh on bicycle killed in road accident

While returning from Chhattisgarh to their home in Uttar Pradesh on the bicycle amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown, 4 migrant workers were hit by a truck which left one dead and three others injured. Meanwhile, the truck has been seized and its driver was arrested.

Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh): A migrant labourer returning home in Uttar Pradesh from Chhattisgarh on a bicycle due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown was killed after being hit by a truck, police said on Wednesday.

Forty-year-old Mohan, a resident of Saharanpur, was returning home along with three others on Tuesday evening when the accident took place, they said.

The labourers had stopped on the roadside near Kalchiha village to take rest when they were hit by a speeding truck, the police said.

All the four suffered injuries in the accident and were taken to a community health centre in Mau village, where Mohan died.

Mau community health centre superintendent Shekhar Vaishya said the condition of the three other workers was stable.

The truck has been seized and its driver arrested, the police said.

The workers, hailing from Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar districts, were working at a jaggery factory in Raipur in Chhattisgarh.

The factory was closed due to the ongoing lockdown enforced to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.

(PTI report)