The Balasore incident highlights the dire situation in rural Bengal, where pervasive corruption and lack of job opportunities push people to seek better fortune elsewhere.
A family in the Soth 24 Parganas of West Bengal lost three of its members who were migrant workers and were travelling back to Tamil Nadu to find work. The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced an ex gratia of Rs 5lakhs for the kin of the victims who have died from the state.
Three brothers from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train accident in Odisha's Balasore, officials said.
Odisha train accident: The three brothers from South 24 Parganas were travelling back to Tamil Nadu in search of work as farm labourers in the Coromandel Express when they lost their lives due to the deadly train crash.