They brought my son's photo, said he is dead: Kin of Bengal migrant worker
Hindustan Times|June 04, 2023
Far away from his home at Haripal in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, Ayan Das has been receiving every call from known and unknown numbers once he came to know about the railway disaster in Odisha.
Tanmay Chatterjee
They brought my son's photo, said he is dead: Kin of Bengal migrant worker

“Four of my neighbours from Haripal were coming to me. Three of them, are admitted at a hospital in Balasore but there is no news of the fourth man, Gopal Hembram,” Das told HT over phone from Kerala’s Kollam city.

 

“Like me, these men are skilled carpenters. There are a lot of job opportunities in Kerala. Migrant workers rent rooms and live in groups to cut down cost,” Das added.

In Kolkata, government officers monitoring the emergency helpline numbers said they received frantic calls from almost all districts since the early hours of Saturday.

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