Shahjahanpur: A migrant worker died in Uttar Pradesh’ Shahjahanpur while riding a bicycle from his workplace in Delhi to his hometown in Bihar amid the ongoing lockdown on Saturday.
According to the police, deceased has been identified as 32-year-old Dharamveer. Police said Dharamveer and some other workers started cycling from Delhi to the Khagaria area of Bihar on April 28.
“On Friday night, they halted on the Delhi-Lucknow highway in Shahjahanpur. Cycling When the condition of Dharamveer deteriorated, the labourers took him to the medical college where he was declared brought dead,” Circle Officer (city) Praveen Kumar said.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Rajeev Gupta said that the samples of Dharamveer have been collected for COVID-19 testing.
“His fellow labourers have been kept in isolation and their samples will also be sent for testing as well,” he said.
Meanwhile, the central government has allowed the movement of migrant workers through the special trains to their respective home states. The lockdown, which was scheduled to conclude on May 3, has been now extended by another two weeks.
