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India train crushes home-bound migrant workers sleeping on tracks
 [Aljazeera] An Indian train ran over migrant workers sleeping on the track on Friday, killing at least 14 of the group, who were apparently on their way to their home villages, the railway ministry and media said on Friday.Tens of thousands of people have been walking home from India's key cities after losing their jobs because of a lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus since late March. The driver tried to stop the freight train when he saw the labourers on the tracks in the western state of Maharashtra, the railway ministry said, adding it had ordered an inquiry. Fourteen people were killed and five were injured, said a railway spokesman, CH Rakesh. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-08 |
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