After a recent series of attacks targeting non-Kashmiri workers in Kashmir, hundreds of migrant workers from Bihar have started fleeing the region taking the first bus to their state.
The exodus is driven by fear after non-locals are being targeted by terrorists. The latest attack killed three labourers from Bihar in Kulgam, South Kashmir on October 17.
Two terrorists killed two migrant workers from Bihar and injured a third in their rented accommodation in Kulgam, an atrocity claimed by the United Liberation Front, a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Over 200 migrant workers from Narpatganj, Raniganj, Forbesganj, and Jokihat Palasi blocks in Bihar's Araria district alone are set to leave for home due to pressure from family members to return, according to a report by The Times of India.
Many are said to have already boarded trains for their hometown.
In Patna, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday that the J&K administration must act swiftly and "also provide necessary protection in the areas where workers from other states reside".
So, far as many as 11 people, mostly migrants, have been killed in targeted attacks in the valley in October.?