A crowned tooth would be expensive, for a casual laborer: though he told her that he was trained as a joiner, with a job coming up soon at the new power station.

He had since moved to a rented accommodation in the neighborhood and was working as a casual laborer, the city’s deputy police chief, Pei Jun, told reporters.

“By the time we arrived at the hospital it was too late. We lost the baby,” said Bikundo, 24, a casual laborer. “I am still traumatized.”

“It was like someone had picked my pocket,” says Prashuram, a 52-year-old casual laborer in the Indian capital New Delhi, recalling the evening of Nov. 8.

He spends the rest of the month hiring himself out as a casual laborer.