In pictures: Indian migrant workers homecoming still a long way off

Desperate migrant workers trapped in lockdown from home, with no jobs or money.

Published: May 17, 2020 19:45 Nilanjana Javed, Digital Content Editor

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A migrant family walks to board train, after a limited reopening of India's giant rail network following a nearly seven-week lockdown to slow the spreading of the COVID-19 in Greater Noida, India. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Migrant workers and their families walk to board a bus to reach a railway station to drive to their home state of eastern Bihar. Image Credit:

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A migrant worker sits with her children as they wait to cross the border to their home state of Uttar Pradesh in New Delhi. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Satyendra Kumar, a migrant worker, massages the feet of his daughter after walking for three days, as they wait to cross the border to their home state of Uttar Pradesh in New Delhi. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Migrant workers sleep outside a railway station in Ahmedabad. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Migrant workers from other states trying to return to their homes walks towards a pick up point for transportation to a train station in Ahmedabad. Tens of thousands of migrant laborers have been returning from big cities to their villages after losing jobs because of a countrywide lockdown imposed in late March to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Image Credit: AP

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A migrant woman from another state trying to return to her home holds her children as she waits for transportation to a train station in Ahmedabad. Image Credit: AP

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A policeman wields his baton to disperse migrant workers as they were demanding train service to their home state of Bihar, in Ahmedabad. Image Credit: REUTERS/Amit Dave

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A migrant worker's child carries an infant at a temporary shelter while waiting to register for free travel on a train, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Image Credit: AP

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Migrant workers sit inside a truck and try to cross Delhi, Uttar Pardesh border to reach their home state during lockdown in New Delhi. Image Credit: AP

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A woman migrant worker with her child looks for transport to return to her home state in New Delhi. Image Credit: AP

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