Guwahati: Five children belonging to Rohingya refugees have reportedly fled from an observation home at Silchar in south Assam’s Cachar district.
By destroying a wall at the centre, the five Rohingya children and two other local children escaped the observation home in Meherpur in Silchar.
Sources said that the incident occurred on July 1, and was only discovered Friday.
Silchar police arrested 26 Rohingyas, including 8 women and 6 men.
On May 28, the team reached Kamakhya Station in Guwahati by train from Delhi. They then traveled by road to Silchar on two Innova cars. Silchar was reached in the wee hours of the morning the following day.
Out of the 26 Rohingyas arrested, the police held the minors at an observation center and other prisoners at Silchar Central Jail.