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Workers Are Dying in the Heat in India

Haryana, India — On April 26, under a blazing sky in Haryana’s grain market, Rajendra Paswan, fifty, a migrant laborer from Bihar, collapsed while lifting sacks of grain. Hundreds of laborers watched as the father from Bihar died far from home. Paswan’s death is India’s first case of a workers’ deat.

Paswan’s death is India’s first case of a workers’ deat.

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