Two from Gaya among 24 killed in Auraiya accident

PATNA: Two migrant workers from Gaya in Bihar were among the 24 people killed in an accident on the NH-19 in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh early Saturday morning. With this, the tally of migrant workers from Bihar killed in separate accidents during the ongoing nationwide lockdown has gone up to 17.
Reports said Kedar Yadav (22) of Padumchak village under Barachatti block in Gaya district was killed when the truck in which he and 70 others were travelling from Rajasthan hit another truck in Auraiya district. Another migrant worker, Satyendra, from Dobhi police station area in Gaya district, also died in the accident. He was in his early 30s. Another migrant worker, Arjun Kumar, a native of Sahebganj in Muzaffarpur district, received serious injuries.
Chief minister Nitish Kumar expressed grief over the accident and wished for early recovery of the injured.
On Thursday night, a migrant worker was killed and two others were seriously injured when an SUV carrying nine people from Gujarat hit an oil container on the NH-2 under Kudra police station in Kaimur district. The SUV was on way to Aurangabad.
Earlier, two migrant workers were killed in an accident in Samastipur district on Wednesday. Besides, two migrant workers died when they fell from a moving truck near Supauli under Sidhwalia block in Gopalganj district last week.
These apart, Ashok Kumar and Pinku, stated to be residents of Purnea district, were run over by a speeding SUV at Ambala Cantonment in Haryana on May 11 followed by the death of another 25-year-old migrant worker Shiv Kumar Das in Raebareli. Das was killed while cycling home from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh with a group of migrants returning home in Bihar.
In a similar incident, a 25-year-old Sageer Ansari of East Champaran district was killed on Shaheed Path in Lucknow on May 11. Sageer was part of a group of migrants returning home from Delhi on bicycles.
On April 23, migrant workers Mukesh Yadav and Tulsi Ram were killed and their friend Guddu received serious injuries on Agra-Lucknow Expressway under Nagla Khangar police limit in Firozpur district of Uttar Pradesh when they were on motorbikes on way to their native place in Samastipur and Muzaffarpur districts.