Seven members of a family were burnt alive in a fire that broke out in their hut here on Wednesday morning, police said. Punjab: 7 of Family Charred to Death As Hut Catches Fire in Ludhiana.
"My thoughts are with the bereaved families in this hour of grief," Prime Minister Modi expressed and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from PMNRF to the next of kin of the deceased.
At least 22 migrant labourers, who had returned from Andhra Pradesh, escaped from a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Chhattisgarh s Dantewada district, police said on Friday. The labourers escaped from a quarantine facility in Dantewada late on Thursday evening and a search was launched to trace them.
The accident took place near Patha village on Saturday night whennearly 20 migrant labourers were going in the truck to Jhansi and Etah in Uttar Pradesh from Hyderabad, Additional Superintendent of Police Rajesh Tiwari said.