SAPTARI: At least 50 workers have been rescued rescued from various places along the East-West highway in the Saptari district.
Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office Saptari, Krishna Prasai, said that the laborers employed at various factories stuck in Saptari due to the lockdown have been rescued and sent to their homes,
The workers were stranded without food and transportation service since the government enforced a lockdown against coronavirus from March 14.
It is said the workers working at various factories in Morang, Sunsari and Saptari had walked to their homes in Saptari for lack of transport but were stranded in Saptari.
The District Police Office Saptari rescued these people in coordination with various local levels in the district. Police send them up to Lalbandi of Sarlahi. Among the rescued workers, 38 are from Sarlahi and four each from Rautahat, Bara and Siraha.
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