NEW DELHI: Eighty people have died reportedly in the special shramik trains run by railways between May 9 to 27. Several newspapers have reported it after reviewing the document. Out of the 80, 1 was a coronavirus victim while 11 died of comorbid diseases.
3,840 of these special trains have run till May 27. The railway has said that over 52 lakh passengers have been ferried on these trains.
Hindustan Times, who reviewed the data from the Railway Police Force (RPF), initially reported the number of deaths. The list of the causalities is the initial one, while the RPF, in coordination with the state, would issue the final numbers soon.
States, which had previously observed a low count of coronavirus infections, like Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal, have seen a surge in the number with the return of the migrants to their native land.
While the trains have been running for almost a month now, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman of the Railway Board, has said that the demand for these trains is going down gradually.