18 migrant labourers found travelling inside mixer truck tank by Madhya Pradesh police
Indore/IBNS: Indore police on Saturday caught 18 people travelling in the mixer tank of a concrete mixer truck during a naka check at Panth Piplai village, barely 35 km from here in Madhya Pradesh.
Local police said that those 18 people, most of them migrant labourers, were travelling from Maharashtra to Lucknow in UP.
All 18 persons were sent to a shelter home for medical examination.
"They will be screened and quarantined," a local police official said.
However, besides seizing the mixer truck, police have registered an FIR in connection with the incident.
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