A day after mid-day highlighted the plight of 20 starving fishing workers stranded in a jungle at Madh Island, Malvani police on Saturday reached out to the labourers and provided them shelter, while the locals distributed food to them.

On Friday, mid-day had reported that these contractual labourers, who worked on fishing trawlers, were sacked by their employers following the lockdown and were stuck in the jungle. "Thanks to mid-day report that highlighted our problems after which the administration immediately reached out to help us, otherwise we would have died of hunger and thirst in this forest, said Rahul Nishad, a labourer.