On the morning of 8 May 2020, an empty goods train ran over and killed 16 migrant workers sleeping on or by the tracks near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

[3] A group of 20 labourers were walking from steel factories in Jalna, Maharashtra, to Bhusawal so that they could board a "Shramik Special" train to reach their homes in Umariya and Shahdol districts of Madhya Pradesh.

The train was moving at 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph), and despite applying the emergency brakes, it was unable to stop before hitting the workers.

[7] CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury tweeted, "the death of these poor labourers is solely due to the sudden announcement of a lockdown and denial of transport to them for weeks, while not providing a substantive relief package".

[8] Shiv Sena minister Sandipan Bhumre and MLA Ambadas Danve met the survivor in hospital.