Two months of unpaid workers have committed mass suicide in the lockdown. The incident took place in Telangana, India. Police recovered the bodies of nine people, including workers and their family members, from a well in the village on Thursday and Friday, Reports Anandabazaar.
out of the 9 victims, 8 are from West Bengal. Two from Bihar and one from Tripura. Police are considering the incident as mass suicide. Because there is no sign of injury on anyone’s body. As a result, the chances of murder are low.
Besides, these workers were not able to return home. It is learned that they have not received salaries from jute mills and other factories for the last two months. It is learned that everyone was cornered by not being able to return home, losing their house and extreme financial crisis.
Maqsood Alam from West Bengal reached Telangana 20 years ago to work in a jute mill. He lived with his family in two houses near the factory. But he had to leave the house as he did not get a salary in lockdown. A local shopkeeper gave them shelter in his warehouse. That Well was located there. The bodies of Maqsood, his wife Nisha, two sons Sohel and Shabad, daughter Bushra Khatun and three-year-old grandson Shakil were recovered from the well on Friday.
The bodies of Tripura resident Shakil Ahmed, Bihar’s Sriram and Shyam were also recovered from the well.
