COVID-19: Starving migrants sell mobile phones, necklace to buy food
(WorldNews Asia)

Patna: With their jobs gone due to the lockdown and government measures to tackle the aftermath being far from satisfactory, hapless migrant workers from Bihar are selling off their belongings to buy food and just ensure that they stay alive! Over the past week, many such incidents have been reported from across Bihar and also from outside the state about desperate labourers selling off their belongings to ensure survival. A poor migrant labourer from Betia town in West Chamaparan district of Bihar sold his mobile phone — his last possession that had helped him stay connected with his family during the long and arduous journey from Delhi — to buy food. Vipin Kumar had only Rs2,000 (Dh98) in...