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Lockdown: Police rain lathis on migrants walking home to UP, Gujarat

Workers say they now have nowhere to go; police won't let them walk home, and landlords in city won't take them back in

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Migrants walk home to UP, Gujarat on Thursday. Pic/Hanif Patel

Migrants walk home to UP, Gujarat on Thursday. Pic/Hanif Patel

Migrant workers continue to suffer amid the lockdown. In the latest incident, hundreds of labourers, who had set out for home on foot, were lathi-charged by police at Kashimira on Thursday. Police chased them away towards the city, and now they have nowhere to go.

Over 250 daily-wagers were headed towards Gujarat when they were stopped by the police on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway near Ghodbunder Road junction. As police rained lathis on them, many ran down the bridge and crossed to the other side. Others ran to hide behind vehicles. A mid-day team witnessed the baton charge that took place on the north-bound Versova bridge on the highway. With no food and to transportation back home, the workers had decided to walk hundreds of kilometres to reach home.

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