Injured worker begged for help for an hour,then hanged himself

In the same district,around the same time,40 migrant workers from West Bengal were injured at Kayamkulam following a clash with a mob over an alleged mobile phone theft. Several of them are serious.

In the last week of June,local people at Kakkanadu near Kochi had attacked a camp of Bengali workers.

Police said Oran was on his way to Kochi in search of a job along with two others from his village,when he fell off the train by accident at Cherthala.

Says inspector Chandra Mohan: Oran went to several houses. They might have misunderstood him as a thief. Language problem too might have contributed.

Oran sought help for an hour,his condition deteriorating as he bled profusely. Some people saw Oran commit suicide, said the police.

In Kayamkulam,the clash was triggered by an alarm raised by a woman licensee of a ration shop that some Bengali customers had stolen her mobile phone.

When she dialled the number,someone reportedly replied in Hindi,which prompted her to go to the nearby makeshift camp of migrant workers along with local youths, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Dev Manohar.