Aurangabad: 16 migrant labourers died after being hit by a goods train on Friday (May 8) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi has expressed grief by tweeting on Aurangabad train accident. Rahul Gandhi has tweeted and wrote, I am shocked at the news of the killing of labourers and brothers after being crushed by a goods train. We should be ashamed of the treatment being done to our nation builders. My condolences to the families of those killed and pray for the early recovery of the injured.
According to Karmad police, the labourers going from Jalna to Bhusaval were returning to Madhya Pradesh. They said that they were walking on the side of the railway tracks and slept on the tracks due to fatigue. The officer said that the train crushed them at five in the morning at five. Two of the five survivors are injured.
