1 week Ago By Bagish Jha
Khedli Kala: The village of Khedli Kala in Nuh, situated along the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, was plunged into grief on Saturday following the deaths of seven daily wagers , including six women — four from the same family — in a devastating accident involving a speeding pickup truck. Home to around 3,000 people, most residents here earn their living through farming or work as daily wagers. You Can Also Check: Gurgaon AQI | Weather in Gurgaon | Bank Holidays in Gurgaon | Public Holidays in Gurgaon Every morning, around 20 villagers, mainly women, are transported to their workplace — the expressway.
Their work is to keep different stretches of the road clean, a job that has sustained many families for the past six months. Like any other day, this group of sanitary workers left home, but some of them could not return home due to the fatal accident that cut short their lives on Saturday morning. The accident occured near Ibrahim Bass village around 10am when the workers had just started cleaning the stretch of the expressway.
The deceased from the same family were identified as Prem (65), her daughter-in-law Pista (30), Satwati, and her sister-in-law Jaydevi (50). Three others, Resham (60), Jaydei (50), and Ash Mohammad (50), also died on the spot. While Fayyaz, a resident of Jhimrawat; Anita, a resident of Rigad; and Jagwati, Hemlata, and Lajja, all residents of Khedli Kala,n are battling for their lives in the hospital.
Gulab Singh, who is still in shock after losing his wife and daughter-in-law, and other members of the family, said, "We received information about the accident around 10.30am . We have lost our family.
" Meanwhile, Ramesh Chan, an auto driver whose wife Rachna was among the victims, blames himself for letting her work there. "Everyone has to work to feed the family. We do it because there is no other source of income.
No one loves to send their old mother to work on the expressway," he said. Asloop Khan, a neighbour of the victim, expressed, "It is poverty that forces people to work in such conditions." The entire village, as neighbour Irshad Khan puts it, remains in shock, united in grief over the loss of their community members who were simply trying to make ends meet for their families.
Phul Singh said children lost their mother. "This is the first time that so many women of the village died at the same time," said Singh. He said people from the village worked on the expressway for months, but never faced any problem.
The villagers are still in shock and thinking about whether they should continue to send villagers to work on the expressway or not..
