As many as ten Odia migrant workers sustained injuries when a mini bus by which they were returning home hit a roadside tree near Solapada in Angul district late on Wednesday night.
As per information, 15 migrant workers hailing from Purunakot area of Keonjhar district were stranded in Palasa in Andhra Pradesh due to the nationwide lockdown.
The workers+ were returning to their native place, when the driver of the vehicle lost control and rammed into the tree leaving ten of them injured.
The victims were shifted admitted to the Angul District Headquarters Hospital.
In another incident, three labourers were injured after a truck with stranded Odia migrants overturned near Nashik in Maharashtra on Thursday.
The identities of victims are yet to be ascertained.
According to reports, over 50 Odia migrant labourers stranded in Maharashtra amid the lockdown were travelling in the truck to Odisha. But the truck overturned near Ghoti-Sinnar Highway in Nashik district of Maharashtra.
Following the mishap, the truck driver fled from the spot. However, the locals managed to nab the cleaner of the truck and handed him over to police.
The preliminary investigation revealed that the labourers were charged Rs 2 lakh for ferrying them to Odisha.