In yet another heart-wrenching accident, a migrant labourer was killed by a car in Ambala while he was walking to his home in Bihar.?
A group of migrant labourers told the police that they were headed towards their native village in Bihar's Purnia district from Punjab's Ludhiana on foot when the incident occurred.
The driver of the car fled the spot along with the vehicle after the incident. Police said they have got inputs about the absconding driver and he would be nabbed soon.
The deceased was identified as twenty-five-year-old Ashok Kumar while the injured labourer was admitted to the civil hospital at Ambala Cantonment, police told news agency PTI.
One of the labourers, who was part of the group, said around a dozen of them had commenced the journey on foot from Ludhiana two days ago as they were not able to register themselves for boarding one of the special trains of the Indian Railways.
The railways is running "Shramik" trains from various places for migrant labourers who want to go back to their native states.
One of the labourers said they decided to walk back to their villages after? the owner of the factory where they worked removed them from their jobs and there was no arrangement for their accommodation or food.
Last week, more than a dozen migrant workers were killed on railway tracks after a goods train ran over them in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The plight of such workers is similar across the country. There have a been numerous incidents where migrant workers, left with no option, decided to undertake a long journey on foot to back home.