Aurangabad: At least 16 migrant labourers were crushed to death on Friday by a freight train between Badnapur and Karmad, about 25 km from here, while 3 others were seriously injured, Aurangabad Rural SP Mokshada Patil said.
The labourers, hailing from Sadol and Umaria districts of Madhya Pradesh, were working for a steel company at Chandanzira in Jalna.
Over 20 migrants labourers had set out on foot from Jalna on Thursday at 1900 hrs. As they walked along the rail tracks for a long time, they got exhausted and slept on the tracks.
Around 0530 hrs in the morning, while they were sleeping, a freight train crushed 15 of them to death while one person who was grievously injured, died in a hospital.
All top officials of the district including SP Patil, District Collector Uday Chaudhari and other railways officials have reached the spot and are currently assessing the situation. Meanwhile a Special Railway relief train has also reached to provide relief.
The mutilated bodies of the migrant workers have been sent to a nearby hospital while their identities are yet to be ascertained.
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