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Migrants jump off trains to flee isolation
The Hindu | 28/05/2020 07:00 AM | Click to read full article
On Tuesday, 350 migrants returning from Delhi and Patiala pulled the alarm chain at two different places and jumped off the Shramik Special trains. In another incident, migrant workers stopped the Shramik Special from Chandigarh to Gaya district somewhere in Sasaram district and 24 are believed to have escaped, said an official. Lakhs of migrant workers returning home are refusing to be quarantined near their homes.
