Assam

GUWAHATI | 155 people return from Kuwait under VBM

Pratidin Bureau

Under the Vande Bharat Mission (VBM) for northeast India, a Jazeera Airways flight with 155 deportees arrived at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati on Friday evening.

As many as 155 Indians deported by Kuwait landed in Guwahati inAssam on Friday and would be quarantined, officials said. 

Accordingto health and security officials, 52 deportees are from Tripura and 103 fromAssam. Swab samples of all the returnees would be tested and they would remainin mandatory quarantine.

AnAssam government health official in Guwahati said that the deportees would bequarantined and legal proceedings and formalities would start thereafter.

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