70 Bru families return to Mizoram

AIZAWL, April 21 – Around 70 Bru families from Naisingpara relief camp in the neighbouring North Tripura district returned to Mizoram today, the second day of the third phase of the Bru repatriation, official sources said.

The source said over phone from Kanhmun, where the facilitation camp for the repatriated refugees was established, that while 127 families were expected to return, some families refused to come back making several excuses.

The repatriated families would be resettled in Sihthiang, Bunghmun and Tumpangpui villages, he said.