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AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAt least 30 Indian migrant workers were killed on Saturday in road accidents as they tried to return to their home villages during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, officials said.The accidents, in central and northern India, were the latest involving some of the millions of labourers left stranded and jobless by the seven-week shutdown.Scores have died in road and rail accidents and even from exhaustion walking home.In the most deadly incident, a truck carrying about 40 labourers struck another vehicle also carrying workers and their families that was parked at a roadside cafe in Uttar Pradesh, local magistrate Abishek Singh told AFP.It is thought the driver of the truck had fallen asleep, Singh said."The vehicle was carrying lime powder which suffocated many of those who died, all of whom were men," he added.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the accident "extremely tragic" in a Twitter post and said relief work was in "full swing" at the scene.A drunk driver was blamed for the second accident, in Madhya Pradesh, when a truck bringing labourers back from neighbouring Maharashtra state overturned, local official Shashi Mishra said.Four of the five dead were women and 17 people were injured, he added.The millions of labourers, who live off subsistence wages, have become a major concern for the government as it prepares to ease the lockdown from Monday in a bid to get the economy moving again.The Indian government has responded to criticism of its handling of the migrant-labourer crisis by promising extra finance to get those stranded back home and provide food rations.Many businesses shut down overnight after the lockdown began on March 25, leaving millions suddenly out of work.Desperate to return to their home states, many migrants have or hitched rides on trucks.when a train ran over them as they slept on a railway track.The government is also battling a surge in coronavirus cases in major cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as it prepares to ease the lockdown.Cases in India rose by nearly 4,000 overnight to 85,940, eclipsing the number officially registered in China — where the pandemic started last year. India's death toll is 2,752, while China's stands at 4,633.Economist Shamika Ravi, who advises the government and is a much-watched commentator on coronavirus in India has warned that the country must do more to control the outbreak in Mumbai, Delhi and other cities.With the pandemic still weeks away from peaking, has already run out of hospital beds to treat coronavirus patients.Health Minister Harsh Vardhan recently told AFP that India had reacted faster to the pandemic than many richer countries and controlled it better.AdvertisementAdvertisementComments (41) ClosedThe exact reason why Indians flock here, they are actually hopeless with own disastrous leadership. They look to find happiness in others little problems. Sadly, that rarely happens.extremely painful"With the pandemic still weeks away from peaking, Mumbai has already run out of hospital beds to treat coronavirus patients."Despite much vaunted health system and sudden total lockdown???This is what happen when you have fascist and racists rulers. Sad day indeedUnfortunate. RIP for the departed souls. Hard times everywhere.This is the security and relief indian govt providing to its citizens. What a shame!Still situation is better then Pakistan.India has the highest recovery rate in the world.More people are dying in India of coronavirus related accidents and other mishaps than the coronavirus itself.Its unfortunate, why Pakistan has to worry?@Samiullah khan, so what you think govt should do... Open market, open trains, flights...@Shehbaz, More fiction?Why Indian government locked the country without giving them time to go back to their cities. Transport was also made to shut down without realizing how the stranded people will return back. It must have caused havoc there. My apprehension is total number of deaths are much high of stranded workers than actual reported.RIP poor soulsBut still 100 times better than what is happening in Pakistanbigger country many problems, small country few problemsRIP. Horrendous incident.@A shah, yes done by Wuhan virus. Those who died, across the globe.@A shah,Just 100?Relax man. ;)With show off government of BJP many deaths are a regular news.You can't always prevent deaths from accidents as general public has a complacent rather than cautious approach to life, and even when seeing people around them ,dying daily from various accidents, they don't believe it could happen to them.South Asian countries have no respect for the life of poor citizenThis subcontinent has always persevered through the worst of times, from invasions, colonization, imperialism, disease, genocides, ethnic cleansing etc, so no doubt that it will do so again and thrive as always. The Angus Madison research project has put the GDP of the subcontinent over the centuries as 25% of world GDP, and the graph in seventy years, also shows the same trend, nothing to worry.@Shehbaz, "India has the highest recovery rate in the world."That figure comes to 35% - Worldometer. Whereas, Germany's recovery rate is 87% and there are many more countries at higher recovery rate.Where in India did you pass your maths exam??One of the worst ill planned lockdowns on the face of this planet. This is called disastrous leadership.Include them also in corona victims@Shehbaz,We are much better off than Modi’s non secular India.And Pakistanis want medical visas and life saving drugs from India.Still enjoying when bad things happen to others@Ashutosh ,But you earn a lot of money for it !!@bhaRAT©,Indians always claimed Mumbai health system better than New York, where are they now.Indian coronavirus cases have already exceeded China's, while India is a smaller country than China in every aspect.@Mansur Ul Haque, it looks like you don't really understand the necessity of a lockdown. Locking down after the entire population has been infected by random travellers would serve no purpose.@A shah, and we are wondering what is happening in Pakistan?Migrant crisis is not handled well both by central and state governments. Corona pandemic took everyone by big surprise. Internal migrant crisis is bigger challenge than Gulf migrant crisis. India being a vast country, internal migrant crisis is of higher magnitude. Hope Central, State governments, NGOs come together to help the migrants to return home safely. Life is never the same for the migrants and daily labourers.@Rana Ahmed,Not fiction, fraud is the proper word.The poor continue to suffer everywhere due to COVID19. Sad incident.India, a country in turmoil, with bad leadership.@bhaRAT©, Read about the1000 bed makeshift hospital.@Shehbaz, Only sane comment here!Coronavirus is a big theatre with false and fake datas.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement010203040506070809There are many precedents for the ‘minus-one formula’ and ‘technical knockout’ in Pakistan’s political history.AdvertisementThe world’s most consequential relationship between the US and China needs to be managed responsibly.There are many precedents for the ‘minus-one formula’ and ‘technical knockout’ in Pakistan’s political history.SOCIAL hyperpolarisation, gradually becoming apparent not just in developing democracies but also in the more ...AFTER over six years since the project was launched, Karachi got its second multicoloured bus rapid transit line to...The world’s initial response to the tragedy has so far been underwhelming at best.THE families of missing people are caught in a nightmare that appears to have no end. 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AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAt least 30 Indian migrant workers were killed on Saturday in road accidents as they tried to return to their home villages during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, officials said.The accidents, in central and northern India, were the latest involving some of the millions of labourers left stranded and jobless by the seven-week shutdown.Scores have died in road and rail accidents and even from exhaustion walking home.In the most deadly incident, a truck carrying about 40 labourers struck another vehicle also carrying workers and their...

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