6 Delhi-bound Myanmar nationals held

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Six Delhi-bound Myanmar nationals were detained by the Assam police at the state's border with Mizoram, police said. The six Myanmarese, aged 19 to 23 years, were arrested at Lailapur. They had planned to go to Guwahati and then to Delhi by train.

A police official said that during the preliminary interrogation they confessed that they recently entered Mizoram from Myanmar's Chin state through the Champhai border and now they were going to Delhi via Guwahati in search of jobs. Police recovered Rs 40,000 in Indian currency from them and also arrested the Indian driver of the car they had hired to go to Guwahati.

With this, 46 Delhi-bound Myanmarese have been detained in Assam and Manipur during the past 41 days. On October 1, 14 Delhi-bound Myanmar nationals were arrested in Imphal. Since March, around 11,500 Myanmar nationals have taken refuge in Mizoram after the declaration of a state of emergency in Myanmar on February 1.

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