Journey ends in flames for UP workers seeking seasonal work in Rajasthan | Lucknow News
Jaipur: Family members of the casualties in Tuesday’s bus fire in Manoharpura near Jaipur said most passengers aboard the ill-fated vehicle were migrant labourers travelling from Puranpur in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district to work at a brick kiln in Todi village.They barely got any time to escape after the bus hit the high-voltage power line, relatives said.Mohammad Ikrar, whose aunt Chanda and four other relatives are undergoing treatment at the burn ward of Sawai Mansingh Hospital, said his aunt had decided to travel to Rajasthan for seasonal work at a brick kiln. The brick-making season begins in winter and lasts four to five months.“They left Puranpur Monday night and were expecting to reach Jaipur safely by morning,” he said.Chanda’s daughter, Muskan, who was also travelling in the same bus, said passengers warned the driver not to drive under the electric wires, but he ignored them. “My mother was just stepping out when she got electrocuted and fell over,” she recalled. “Her face was charred,” Muskan said while recounting how she managed to save herself by jumping out of a window.Jaipur resident Mohammad Ayum said he received a call from Puranpur informing him that two of his relatives were among the injured.”I was shocked and didn’t know who to contact. When someone told me the injured had been taken to SMS Hospital, I rushed there and found Chanda admitted,” he said.
