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India-Pakistan
India train crushes home-bound migrant workers sleeping on tracks
2020-05-08
[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

#7  Corona suicides
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-05-08 18:51  

#6  They were trying to avoid the police on the roads.
Posted by: John Frum   2020-05-08 12:29  

#5  RJ - I've had to take Roadway Worker Safety Training annually for about 20 yrs to work in the RR Right-of-way (Both BNSF/Coaster and local trolley). It's a myth that you will always hear a train in time if it's traveling at high speed. Likewise the vibration.
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-08 10:49  

#4  Gotta be more than sleeping if the vibrations and noise didn't wake him up. I'm thinking drugs or something.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-05-08 10:39  

#3  "Cuz if we sleep ten feet away, we'll get lost!"
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-08 08:59  

#2  ..Darwin at work?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-08 08:31  

#1  Sleeping on the tracks?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-05-08 06:07  

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