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Twenty-four migrant workers were killed and several others injured after a truck they were travelling in collided with a supply lorry near Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh early on Saturday, said police. The trailer truck carrying migrant workers was coming from Rajasthan and the supply lorry was coming from Delhi, officials said. District Magistrate Auraiya Abhishek Singh said the incident took place at 3:30 a.m. Many of the 24 migrants who died belonged to Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, he said. Fifteen seriously injured were shifted to the Saifai Medical College in Etawah, he said. The trailer truck was filled with construction material and was travelling from Bharatpur in Rajasthan towards Gorakhpur. Jai Narayan Singh, ADG, U.P., said many of the casualties were migrants travelling on the trailer truck. Mr. Singh said it would be investigated how so many people were on the truck.