Baby Tries To Wake Dead Mother At Bihar Station In Endless Migrant Crisis

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Baby Tries To Wake Dead Mother At Bihar Station In Endless Migrant Crisis

India Lockdown: The woman, according to her family, had been unwell on the train because of the lack of food and water. She had taken a train from Gujarat on Sunday. On Monday, shortly before the train rolled into Muzaffarpur, the woman collapsed.

All IndiaReported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Deepshikha GhoshUpdated: May 27, 2020 05:11 pm IST

 

In the clip, the toddler tugs at the cloth partly covering his mother, lying motionless.

 

 

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Patna: 

A baby plays with a shroud covering its dead mother at a station in Bihar, in one of the most tragic visuals to emerge from the daily reports of migrants stranded by the coronavirus lockdown.

In a clip widely shared on social media, the toddler tugs at the cloth placed over his mother's body. The cloth comes off but his mother doesn't move; she had died moments before. According to her family, she died of extreme heat, hunger and dehydration.

The clip is from a station in Muzaffarpur in Bihar, where the 23-year-old woman had arrived in a special train for migrants on Monday.

At the same station, a two-year-old child also died, reportedly from heat on top of inadequate food. The child's family had boarded a different train from Delhi on Sunday.

The woman, according to her family, had been unwell on the train because of the lack of food and water. She had taken a train from Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Saturday. On Monday, shortly before the train rolled into Muzaffarpur, she collapsed.

After her body was laid out on the station platform, her little son kept playing and trying to wake her until an older child dragged him away.

The Railways Ministry says the woman had been unwell when she got on the train and the family got off at Muzaffarpur station when she died.

The woman was heading to Katihar with her sister, sister's husband and two children, said the ministry.

"The woman's family members have said she was already unwell. Request all not to spread fake news," the railways tweeted.

Lakhs of migrant workers and their families were left to fend for themselves after India went into shutdown in late March. Without jobs or money, the migrants set out for their homes thousands of kilometres away, walking or on cycles, autos or trucks. Many died before they could reach home, either in road accidents or from hunger and exhaustion.

Earlier this month, the government started special trains to take migrants home, but the process has been vexed by paperwork and glitches, which led to many still making their own desperate arrangements to go home.

In the soaring heat, migrant families have been forced to wait in queues, either for tickets or at centres where they are screened and declared virus-free to travel on trains.

Temperatures have touched 50 degrees in parts of India, adding to the suffering of labourers and families on the move.

A recent home ministry order that stressed that no permission is needed from destination states to run the trains seems to have added to the chaos.

Officials suspected that lack of coordination between the centre and states has worsened the arrangements on the trains and at stations.

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[Pitta]

[Kool_SRG]

[mirchi_bajji]

if this is due to hunger, then it is gross negligence. migrant workers in long train journeys ki food isthunnara?

[Kool_SRG]

19 minutes ago, mirchi_bajji said:

if this is due to hunger, then it is gross negligence. migrant workers in long train journeys ki food isthunnara?

Isthunaaru ani cheptunaaru but may not be enough...

[JambaKrantu]

So sad man..

Nenu eppudo cheppa more people will die because of lockdown than corona itself..

F4ck the lock down and f4ck all the people that supported it..

[TrollBait]

3 minutes ago, JambaKrantu said:

So sad man..

Nenu eppudo cheppa more people will die because of lockdown than corona itself..

F4ck the lock down and f4ck all the people that supported it..

but not Modi  don't fcuk Modi. anthe na?

contrarian attitude is cool when you can make some sense.

otherwise you are just a fool

[JambaKrantu]

2 minutes ago, TrollBait said:

but not Modi  don't fcuk Modi. anthe na?

contrarian attitude is cool when you can make some sense.

otherwise you are just a fool

F4ck chutiya teal stall modi..

[TrollBait]

29 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Isthunaaru ani cheptunaaru but may not be enough...

Indian media sucks. simple. 

govt announcements carry cheyyataaniki, there's no need of a media.

 

[TrollBait]

2 minutes ago, JambaKrantu said:

F4ck chutiya teal stall modi..

lockdown is fine, because without it employers (asshole employers) will force employees to turn up at work, and people won't realise the seriousness of the how the disease spreads.

but Modi fcuked the lockdown by not preparin for it, through lack of increasing testing, and quick isolation of patients, and coming up with a solid plan within a month to reopen the country.

 

[timmy]

39 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Isthunaaru ani cheptunaaru but may not be enough...

paiki chepthunnaru uncle, boondhi packets isthunnaru mainly, if u r lucky u get biscuits, gujarat nunchi vachina andhra workers chepthunnaru, no social distancing on the bus,  morning and evening boondi packets isthunnaru ani chepthunnaru, they traveled all the way from gujarat to vishakapatnam by bus anukunta, more over they collected 3000 to 4000 rupees per person 

[timmy]

urgent gaa ippudu  central govt announce cheyyakapothey  some kind of package so that janala chethulo dabbulu undela corona chaavulu kanna aakali chaavulu ekkuva ayyetattu unnai 

[no01]

56 minutes ago, TrollBait said:

lockdown is fine, because without it employers (asshole employers) will force employees to turn up at work, and people won't realise the seriousness of the how the disease spreads.

but Modi fcuked the lockdown by not preparin for it, through lack of increasing testing, and quick isolation of patients, and coming up with a solid plan within a month to reopen the country.

 

agreed. Lockdown pettatam OK. Migrant workers ila roads meeda vastharu ani probably evaru guess cheyyaledemo....but as soon as it came into light, govt immediate ga action theesukovalsindhi....its been close a month since we first saw migrant workers crisis. inka struggle avthunnaru ento ardam kavatam ledhu....local bodies and central govt em chesthundo ento.

[punyavathi]

things were not taken correctly before introducing Lockdown. But i still support Lockdown, adhi lekapothey india lo ee patiki 1 lakh deaths undevi. Modi did the same mistake again. Currency ban appudu kuda anthey, without proper plan ban chesi dengadu currency ni.