On behalf of the United States, I offer my sincere condolences to the people and Government of Côte d’Ivoire on the passing of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko on March 10.

Seventeen migrant workers in a group of 20 were killed after a cargo train ran over them while they were sleeping on the tracks in Maharashtra's Aurangabad this morning, the railways said. The migrants were walking from Jalna to Bhusaval, 157 km apart.