West Bengal Govt Facilitates Return Of 138 Workers From J&K After Five Get Killed In Terror Attack

A total of 138 labourers, who had gone to Jammu and Kashmir to earn a living, were brought back from Srinagar on November 04 in the wake of a terror attack last month in which five labourers from West Bengal were killed. While 133 of them are from West Bengal, five are from Assam. Five labourers were killed in a terror attack in Kulgam on October 29. Speaking to the media, Firhad Hakim, Mayor of Kolkata and Minister-incharge Urban Development and Municipal Affairs, said the workers will be sent to their homes. "We have brought them. We have arranged for buses which will take them to their homes in their respective districts," Hakim said.

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