Train accident: Migrant workers’ body demands judicial probe, compensation
The West Bengal Migrant Workers Union on Tuesday has demanded a judicial probe on the derailment of the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel express train near Bahanaga railway station in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday evening.
According to them, those travelling in the unreserved compartment of the train and killed should be identified and their indemnities should be disclosed officially, said the union’s state chief and former CPI-M legislator S.M. Sadi.
“West Bengal has a large number of migrant workers. As the records of the casualties in the train from West Bengal have been identified, the majority were migrant workers.
