Migrant Worker and Driver Killed, Eight Injured After Bus Collides With Truck in Chhattisgarh

Migrant labourer and a bus driver were killed and eight others received injuries after their vehicle collided with a trailer truck in Chhattisgarh's Bemetara district on Thursday, police said.

Two of the injured were reported to be in critical condition, they said.

The accident took place near Temri village on Raipur- Bilaspur highway under Nandghat police station limits at around 8.30 am when the bus carrying migrant labourers was heading towards the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border, he said.

The workers, for the most part from Bihar and Jharkhand who were abandoned in Maharashtra due to the coronavirus-authorized



lockdown, were being carried to the Jharkhand outskirt from Baghnadi check post in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon area, the authority said. 

The transport impacted head-on with the truck originating from the other way close Temri, situated around 70 km from the state capital Raipur.

A migrant labourer, identified as Devnath, hailing from Bihar, and bus driver Guharam Sonwani, a resident of Rajnandgaon, died on the spot, the official said.

At least eight others were injured, two of them critically, he said.

All the injured persons were admitted to a hospital in the neighbouring Bilaspur district, he added.