No wages, harsh conditions, little food: Jharkhand labourers recount ordeal after return from Cameroon | India News

After a couple of months of working deep in the forests of Cameroon, even in the pouring rain, 45-year-old Makund Mahato from Jharkhand saw another worker, from a different country, fall to his death when the land they were working on caved in. “He could have been saved… This hit us hard, and we started demanding our salaries. The contractor promised us money every other day, but kept putting it off,” he said. He was among 27 labourers from different parts of Jharkhand who returned home Wednesday after being stuck…