Police with batons charged hundreds of jobless migrant workers in India on Tuesday who were demanding that special trains be run to take them to their home villages.
The migrant workers crowded a Mumbai train station in protest of the government’s decision to extend the world’s largest lockdown on its 1.3 billion people until May 3.
The workers were hoping for easing of the lockdown restrictions to allow them to return home, mostly in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states.
Maharashtra state Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray asked the government of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi to arrange trains and buses for their journey back.
The first phase of India’s three-week lockdown ended with nearly 10,000 positive cases and 353 deaths, with people restricted to their homes for all but essential trips.
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