India workers barred from returning home clash with cops
Police standing guard at a train station in Bhopal, India, on Saturday. The government has allowed special cross-border trains and buses to operate, to transport workers to their villages in other states. – EPA pic, May 4, 2020.
MORE than 2,000 rural migrant workers blocked from returning home pelted Indian police with stones over the weekend, said officials in Gujarat, as millions more stranded in the state prepare to head back to their villages. Poor migrant workers across the country lost their jobs during the world’s biggest pandemic lockdown, which began in late March to guard against the spread of Covid-19.
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