Six migrant workers killed after hit by bus in UP's Muzaffarnagar

In a tragic news, at least six migrant workers were killed after they were hit by a Uttar Pradesh state bus near Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday night.

The accident happened at the Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur highway at around 11 PM. The victims used to work in Punjab as daily wage labourers and were walking back to their home in Bihar's Gopalganj.

Three other people are also said to be injured in the accident and have been admitted to a hospital. A case has been registered against the driver and a investigations have been launched by the police.

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took the tragedy as an opportunity to attack the BJP government in the Centre. Expressing grief over the death of the migrants, he asked why the poor workers can't come under the government's 'Vande Bharat Mission'.

"Deep grief over the painful death of migrant labourers in the Muzaffarnagar bus accident in Uttar Pradesh. tribute! First train and now bus accident, why the lives of workers are so cheap. Can't the poor people of the country come into the 'Vande Bharat Mission'? It is not right to fly so high that the truth of the ground is ignored," he wrote on Twitter.