The Assam Government officials would hand over 16 of 19 tribal children rescued from the Guwahati railway station to child welfare committees of Tripura and Mizoram. Three other children who were also rescued will be taken to their home in Assam’s Hailakandi district, officials on Thursday said.
All rescued children aged between 4 and 15 are from Bru or Reang community thousands of whom are sheltered in makeshift camps in Kanchanpur of North Tripura district since they fled Mizoram to escape ethnic strife in 1997. 12 children had gone out of the camps and two from a remote village in Tripura’s Unakoti district while two are from Mamith district of Mizoram
Child Welfare Committee of Assam’s Kampur district which got possession of 19 children rescued by Child Line and CID officers on February 25 have contacted child welfare committees of Tripura and Mizoram. 12 children would be produced before child welfare committee of north Tripura district and 2 to the committee of neighbouring Unakoti district.
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