Indian migrants forced to walk home amid COVID-19 lockdown

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the 21-day lockdown to combat coronavirus

Last updated: March 29, 2020 | 09:07

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Migrant workers and their family members lineup outsdie the Anand Vihar bus terminal to leave for their villages during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi.

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Migrant workers wait for buses along a highway with their families as they return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease.

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Migrant workers crowd up outside a bus station as they wait to board buses to return to their villages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease

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Tens of thousands of migrant workers and their famiies fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by India's most populous state to get them to their home towns amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Migrant workers wait for buses along a highway with their families as they return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown.

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Policemen watch as migrant workers scramble inside a bus station as they rush to board buses to return to their villages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease.

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Migrant workers raise their hands as policemen ask them for their destination as they wait for buses along a highway with their families as they return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease.

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Migrant workers crowd up outside a bus station as they wait to board buses to return to their villages during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease.

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Migrant workers and their family members walk with their belongings on a highway towards Uttar Pradesh as they leave for their villages during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Faridabad.

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Migrant labourers walk to their native places on the fourth day of the lockdown announced for the entire country, in Dhaula Kuan.

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A homeless person sleeps by the side of a road as migrant daily wage laborers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India.

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An Indian girl walks through a deserted street during a lockdown as a precautionary measure against COVID-19in Hyderabad, India.

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A migrant worker carries his son as they walk along a road with others to return to their village in New Delhi, India.

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A group of Indian daily wage laborers walk along an expressway hoping to reach their homes, hundreds of kilometers away, as the city comes under lockdown in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.

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Migrant workers carry their belongings as they walk to return to their village during a 21-day lockdown to amid concerns over the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in New Delhi, India.

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Migrant workers carry their belongings as they walk to return to their village during a 21-day lockdown to amid concerns over the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in New Delhi, India.

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A group of Indian daily wage laborers walk along an to reach their homes, as the city comes under lockdown in Prayagraj, India.

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Migrant workers walk along a road to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India.

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Migrant workers and their families walk on a highway as they look out for a transport to return to their villages in Ghaziabad.

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A migrant worker carries her daughter as she walks on a highway with others looking out for a transport to return to their villages, after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad.

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A migrant worker carries her belongings as she walks along a road to return to her village, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India.

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Migrant labourers walk the distance as they leave for their respective villages on the third day of the lockdown announced for the entire country, in New Delhi.

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Migrant workers walk along a highway with their families as they return to their villages,.

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An Indian man carries his children on his shoulders as he along with his family walk along an expressway hoping to reach their home, hundreds of miles away, as the city comes under lockdown in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.

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Migrants walk near Delhi-Ghaziabad road while returning to there hometowns.

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A migrant family wait for transportation to travel to their respective villages following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India.

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Indian migrants daily wage laborers leave city and walk towards their villages following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India,

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A migrant worker rides a cart with his family on a highway as they return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad

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A resident offers water to a child of a migrant daily wage laborer as he with his family make the journey to their village following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi.

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Migrant daily wage laborers make the journey to their respective villages on foot following a lockdown amid concern over spread of coronavirus in New Delhi, India.

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Sushil Kumar, a migrant worker, walks along a highway with his family to return to their village.

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