Toddler tries to awaken dead mother at Bihar station, viral video brings out migrants tragedy

In the video, the child tries to awaken his mother who has passed away at a railway station. Her body is covered in a sheet of cloth. Unaware that his mother has died, the child tries to wake her up by lifting the cloth repeatedly

HIGHLIGHTS

• The incident is from Muzaffarpur railway station in Bihar
• The woman was on board a special Shramik Train from Ahmedabad to Katihar
• The Railways has claimed she died on board and her body was handed to her family

If you have a heart, it will break. For this is not an ordinary report. It is one of the most heart-wrenching stories that brings out the miseries of migrant workers across India. A video from Bihar's Muzaffarpur has shocked the country.

In it, a toddler can be seen trying to awaken his mother who has passed away at a railway station. Her body is covered in a sheet of cloth. Unaware that his mother has died, the child tries to wake her up by lifting the cloth repeatedly.

The woman's body lies unattended at the railway station. Regular announcements about trains can be heard in the backdrop.

Local media reports suggest that the woman was among the migrant workers who had reached Muzaffarpur in a special shramik train from Ahmedabad.

The Indian Railways has put out a tweet saying she was on board a train to Katihar in Bihar.

She died on board on May 25 and her body was handed over to her family members and de-boarded at Muzaffarpur, the Railways claims.

Hundreds of migrant workers across India have died due to exhaustion, starvation, heatstroke, road accidents, among others, as they desperately try to reach their homes.

Most of them have been rendered jobless ever since the nationwide lockdown was imposed two months ago.

The Centre and state government have been making tall claims of looking after the migrant workers, but two months into the lockdown, the reality remains that many of them are still walking back to their homes in scorching sun and no little food.