{"id":25176,"date":"2020-05-11T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/truck-carrying-migrant-workers-overturns-in-madhya-pradesh-5-killed\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T19:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T14:18:05","slug":"truck-carrying-migrant-workers-overturns-in-madhya-pradesh-5-killed-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25176","title":{"rendered":"Truck carrying migrant workers overturns in Madhya Pradesh; 5 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>They were atop a heap of mangoes on the Agra-bound vehicle coming from Hyderabad.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five migrant workers were killed and 13 persons injured after their truck overturned on a highway in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh on the night of May 9, said district officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPerched atop a heap of mangoes laden on the Agra-bound truck coming from Hyderabad, 15 migrant workers were headed towards Jhansi and Etah districts of Uttar Pradesh,\u201d said Rahul Wasnik, Assistant Director, Narsinghpur administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 11.30 p.m. on May 9, the truck, with a driver, a co-driver and a cleaner in the driver\u2019s cabin, overturned on National Highway 44 near Mungwani, 30 km from Narsingpur, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Speeding may be reason\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe deceased were crushed under the truck. Prima facie, speeding appears to be the reason for the accident. We are inquiring into it,\u201d added Mr. Wasnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eleven of the injured were admitted to the district hospital, while two critically injured were shifted to a medical college in Jabalpur, some 100 km away. Their identities are yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Condoling the deaths, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, \u201cSenior officials of the government are on the spot to ensure complete treatment for the injured. I pray for their speedy recovery and strength to families of the deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 8, as many as 16 workers from Madhya Pradesh, attempting to walk back home along railway tracks, were run over by a freight train between Jalna and Aurangabad districts in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/five-killed-as-truck-carrying-migrant-workers-overturns-in-madhya-pradesh\/article31548814.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were atop a heap of mangoes on the Agra-bound vehicle coming from Hyderabad. Five migrant workers were killed and 13 persons injured after their truck overturned on a highway in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh on the night of May 9, said district officials. \u201cPerched atop a heap of mangoes laden on the Agra-bound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}