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14 migrant workers run over by goods train in Maharashtra

At least 14 migrant workers sleeping on rail tracks were crushed to death by a goods train in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra on Friday morning, police said.

Two other labourers were injured in the tragic accident which took place at 5.15 a.m. under the Karmad Police station jurisdiction, an official said.

The workers, who were walking to Bhusawal from Jalna in central Maharashtra along rail tracks, were returning to their home State Madhya Pradesh, an official at the Karmad police station told PTI.

They were sleeping on rail tracks due to exhaustion when they were run over by the goods train coming from Jalna, he said.

Police inspect the spot where 14 migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh were run over by a goods train early on Friday morning.

“The labourers, working in a steel factory in Jalna, left for their home State on foot last night. They came till Karmad and slept on tracks as they were tired,” police officer Santosh Khetmalas said.

Fourteen workers lost their lives in the accident, while two others were injured, he said, adding three labourers who were also part of the group survived as they were sleeping some distance away from rail tracks.

Further details are awaited, he said.

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