Seven South Western Railway (SWR) zone special trains ferried 10,059 migrant workers back home to five Indian states amid Covid pandemic, an official said on Tuesday. "The first shramik special train from Mysuru left Kabakaputtur station near Mysuru at 2.38 p.m. with 1,428 passengers to Bapudam Motihari in Bihar," said a SWR zone official. Bapudam Motihari is 154 km north of Bihar capital Patna.

Tuesday's second special train with 1,076 migrants departed Chikka Bannavara station from the outskirts of Bengaluru at 3.30 p.m. to Haridwar in Uttarakhand. Haridwar is 53 km south of Uttarakhand capital Dehradun. The third special train from Malur near Bengaluru to Danapur in Bihar departed at 5:03 p.m. with 1,527 migrants. "The migrant workers were happy as they could not make it in the earlier 6 special trains that left for Danapur," said the official.