Guna (Madhya Pradesh), May 14 (TIWN) At least 8 migrant workers have been killed and over 56 were injured after the truck in which they were travelling collided with a bus coming from opposite direction in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district.

The container truck they were travelling in collided with a bus in Cantt area of Guna in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday night. The group of migrant labourers were travelling from Maharashtra to Uttar Pradesh.  Apart from the 8 dead, 55 others have been seriously injured in the accident. The migrant labourer families were travelling in the truck that collided with a bus late in the night. 

The driver of the container truck fled the scene immediately after the collision. The accident took place around 2-3 am.  In another similar accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar on the same night, a group of six migrant labourers, who were walking from Punjab to their native places in Bihar, were mowed down by a bus.  Six migrant labourers died on the spot while four others were injured in the accident that took place late in the night.  In the third such incident in a day, at least two people have died and 12 others have been injured in a collision between a bus and a truck near Shankar Chowk in Samastipur, Bihar. The injured have been taken to a hospital.

The bus was going from Muzaffarpur to Katihar and was carrying 32 migrant labourers.  The incidents are a grim reminder of last week’s accident in Aurangabad in which 16 migrant labourers were run over by a goods train while they were sleeping on the tracks. The labourers were walking home from Maharashtra to Madhya Pradesh when they fell asleep on the tracks out of exhaustion.