Around 500 passengers flee Assam railway station to avoid Covid test
The police and health officials could hold back only a handful of passengers after they had disembarked from the train.
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The Assam Police launched a massive search operation on Sunday to trace around 500 people who fled from the state s Jagiroad railway station, skipping the mandatory Covid test, officials said.
Police and health officials said that around 500 passengers who came from south Indian states, overpowered health officials in the railway station, and fled, creating panic in the area, around 60 km from Guwahati.
Police said that of the around 500 people, including women and children, a majority are migrant workers, and had travelled by the Kanyakumari-Dibrugarh Vivek Express that had started from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and traversed Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal over five days.