Two migrant women from Bilha region of Chhattisgarh were among four persons killed when a state transport bus carrying 32 migrant workers leaving Maharashtra in the wake of Covid-19 crashed into a truck near Arni taluka in that state’s Yavatmal district on Tuesday morning.
The bus driver and migrant workers died on the spot while 16 others who were injured were shifted to a government-run hospital in Yavatmal, the Maharashtra Police said.
According to a Maharashtra Police official, the workers were walking from Solapur to their native places when the district authorities spotted them and organized a bus to ferry them to the Maharashtra border, about 200 km away from Yavatmal district.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel expressed grief over the deaths of the migrants and announced Rs 4 lakh ex gratia to the kin of the two deceased from Chhattisgarh.