Migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant in UP


Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Mar 30 (IANS): In a shocking incident, migrants who were returning to their homes in Uttar Pradesh were sprayed with ‘chemical on Sunday by a team on sanitising duty at the Bareilly bus stand.

According to reports, the migrants who had walked down from Noida and Delhi, were told to sit at the bus stand by officials who said that they would be taken on buses and would be given food.

Mohd Afzal, one in the group, said, "About 50 of us were seating and waiting for food and the bus at the satellite bus adda when some men in protective suits came and began spraying water on us. They said that they were form the sanitization team and were sanitizing us. The children began crying and women were also shocked."

According to sources, the sanitizing team sprayed the group with a diluted mixture of sodium hypochlorite.

Sodium Hypochlorite is the main ingredient in laundry bleach. It is used extensively as a bleaching agent in the textile, detergents, and paper and pulp industries. It is also used as a disinfectant.

Mohd Afzal said that after they were sprayed with water, the children complained of itching in their eyes while some women developed rashes.

"The chemical had a strange smell and after this incident, most of us left Bareilly and decided to continue our journey on foot," he said. Mohd Afzal works as a courier boy in a company in Noida and has returned to his home in Shahjahanpur.

None of the officials in Bareilly and Lucknow, however, were ready to comment on the incident.

Calls made to the Bareilly district magistrate's office did not elicit any response.

A junior official, however, said that since a Corona positive patient had been reported in the district on Sunday, a massive sanitization drive was undertaken.

Officials in Lucknow also did not respond to queries on the incident.

 

  

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  • Felix Pinto, Koteshwar

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    These are poor people working for their daily morsel in far off land. All of them belong to lower strata in society and hence easily expendable. We know the type of inhuman and ruthless people running the show including politicians, officials, etc.

    Let us stop blaming people.in power. We ourselves too failed them. If the society that benefited due to their labour stood by them at this hour of need by providing shelter, food, clothing, medication, etc. certainly they would not have been pushed to the extent of walking hundreds of kilometres.

    Sorry brothers. We didn't care for you.

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    There is no accountability in this country and so any one feels free to do what ever he wants. Sad to have Humans including women and children being sprayed with bleeching agent.

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  • G Veer S, Nagpur

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    Is this to kill'people and children or kill the virus???. In any case this will surely decrease the immunity of a person.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, India

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    😰 my heart breaks to see this . Our poor deserve dignity , equality & better quality of life . Things need to change . We leave them all alone to fend & garner global recognition then we leave them on the roads hungry & finally this . I am ashamed to call myself a indian . It's truly disheartening.

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  • El En Tea, Mangalore

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    In human act on Indian Citizen by Indians spraying chemicals...... Disgusting

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  • Karthik, Konaje/ Navi Mumbai

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    And the likes of Anupam Kher urge the nation to sweep such incidents under the carpet in the name of patriotism.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Mon, Mar 30 2020

    The BIMARU states will ensure India remains in the 5th world for another 500 years.

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