They had started their journey on truck from Delhi hoping to reach their home at Pindrajora in Bokaro, but it was their bodies that reached their home district Bokaro by 11 special ambulances on Monday afternoon.
The bodies of 11 migrant labourers, who were killed and 4 others, who got injured by a speeding truck in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district were brought to Bokaro by district administration, said DC Bokaro Mukesh Kumar.
Eleven ambulances with 11 bodies reached Bokaro around 2:30 pm, where DC Bokaro Mukesh Kumar and other district officials received them and sent them to their villages at Kherabera and Babudih under Gopalpur panchayat in Chas, Bokaro in ambulances, DC officials said.
The four who were injured identified as Umesh Kalindi,Yogeshwar Kalindi, Nirodh Kalindi and Dhananjay Kalindi, belonged to two villages Kherabera and Babudih.
Bokaro DDC, Ravi Ranjan Mishra, Additional, Collector Vijay Kumar Gupta, Chas Civil SDO Sashi Prakash Singh Dy superintendent of police Bhagwan Das and senior officials were present at the village and handed over the bodies to their family members. These 11 people belonged to the villages of Kherabera and Babudih of Bokaro district.
The labourers, working in a Delhi, left for their home district on truck. Exhausted, they slept on the truck near Aruiya district, not knowing that this would be the last journey.
Only four from the group of 15 survived, but were injured. As information provided by villagers, three of them were standing away from the truck.
At least 25 migrant labourers were killed and 33 others injured when a truck carrying them collided with a DCM in Auraiya. Most of the migrants were coming from Rajasthan and were natives of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal,officials said.
Reports said the incident had taken place near Mihauli village under Kotwali police circle around 3.30am on Saturday.