The first special camp organised by the police at the district headquarters to trace missing persons received good response with family members of almost all the 26 odd missing persons attending the camp.
A day after Superintendent of Police Omprakash Meena announced that the special camps would be organised in all the seven police sub divisions in the district, Deputy Superintendent of Police Natarajan organised the first special camp here on Saturday.
Except members of two families, who were residing in Madurai, almost all the family members of the missing persons in the sub-division turned up at the camp, organised at the Bazar police station, Mr. Natarajan said.
The family members were shown about 70 photographs of those who went missing and were now staying in various homes and being taken care of by voluntary organisations but the family members said none of them were their kin, he said. They were also shown photographs of unclaimed dead bodies, the DSP said.
Twenty six people who went missing from the sub-division have not been traced yet, he said adding he would call the family members of the missing persons for another interaction after a couple of months after collecting fresh details about the missing persons.
The SP said the special camps were being organised to trace 119 people who went missing from the district with the help of family members.
The special camp would held in Rameswaram on Sunday, he said.
