Train kills 15 migrant workers walking home in India
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Railways Ministry says a train has plowed through a group of migrant workers who fell asleep on the tracks after walking back home from a coronavirus lockdown. It says the driver of the cargo train tried but failed to stop in time in Maharashtra state. The Press Trust of India news agency says the workers were walking to their home state in central India after they lost jobs when the country went into a strict lockdown on March 25. Early this week the government started running trains to carry stranded workers to their home states. But a lack of trains led many to walk back. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was anguished by the loss of lives.