Shahjahanpur (UP) Five labourers jumped from a slow-moving Shramik Special train bound for Gonda on Friday following which they were detained and sent to a quarantine centre, police said.
The Shramik Special train was ferrying migrant labourers from Amritsar to Gonda.
The train was moving at a slow speed towards Sitapur around 5 am when the five labourers hailing from Shahjahanpur jumped from it, SHO, Government Railway Police (GRP), Ajit Kumar Singh, told Media.
As the train was moving at a slow speed none of them suffered injuries.
All of them were detained and later sent to a quarantine centre, Singh said.
Shramik Special trains, which began on May 1, are bound for a single destination without any stoppages.
The trains are ferrying migrant workers stranded in various states due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. (PTI)
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