Injured laborers undergoing treatment at Munger Sadar Hospital
– Photo: Amar Ujala
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In Munger, more than two dozen laborers were injured when a pick-up loaded with laborers overturned in a pit. The injured include women and four children. It is said that all these laborers were going from Khagaria to Sheikhpura for harvesting. Then the pickup overturned in the pit near Scindia of Munger-Patna main road NH 80. There were 45 laborers in the pickup. Among them, the condition of three women laborers is said to be critical. Presently all the injured are being treated at Munger Sadar Hospital.
the driver was intoxicated
In this regard, the female laborer contractor Nirmala Devi, who is taking the laborers, says that we are residents of Beldaur in Khagaria district. I was going on a one-month booking with all the laborers to harvest the lentils planted in the field of Gad Wadiya area under Sheikhpura district of Lakhisarai resident landowner Vipin Sharma. He told that the driver of the pick-up van had stopped on the way and was intoxicated, due to which the pickup turned uncontrolled near Singhia while driving at a high speed and overturned in a pit. All the injured were taken to Sadar Hospital with the help of the local people. The driver fled from the scene of the accident . Doctors of Sadar Hospital Dr. Ajay and Dr. Roshan say that more than 25 laborers are injured. In which there are 21 women and 4 children. All are being treated.
These are the injured laborers
Advocate Sharma’s wife Sugo Devi (55), Advocate Sharma’s daughter Priyanka Kumari (14), Viveka Mandal’s wife Aruna Devi (45), Vishnudev Mandal’s wife Radha Devi (60), Prakash Mandal’s wife Sunita Devi (35), Nanki Devi (35), wife of Vijal Mandal, Phoolor Devi (40), wife of Umesh Mandal, Ritesh Kumar (13), son of Vijay Mandal, Kiran Devi (35), wife of Shambhu Sahni, resident of Durgapur, Madhepura, wife of Charitra Mandal, resident of Khaira Kiran Devi (45), Rekha Devi (35), wife of Rajusada resident of Girjapur, Indu Kumari (10), daughter of Raju Sada, Phoolon Devi (60), wife of Dhyani Sada, Sonia Devi (40), wife of Vilas Mandal, resident of Beldaur Vimla Devi (45), wife of resident Sudin Mandal, Rampari Devi (40), wife of Arvind Mandal, resident of Durgapur, Mala Devi (45), wife of late Govind Mandal, Veena Devi (35), wife of Satyanarayan Mandal, Surendra, son of late Bengali Chaudhary Chowdhary (45), Sudin Mandal (50), son of Kamleshwari Mandal, Neelam Devi (35), wife of Ranvi Paswan, Lalita Devi (50), wife of Ranjit Paswan, Neelam Devi (50), wife of Lakhan Mandal, son of Lalan Mandal Mrs. Kajal Kumari (12), Dilip Mandal’s wife Rita Devi (30), Dilip Mandal’s daughter Madhu Kumari (12) and others were injured.