Infants, bed-ridden patients wait in cramped airport to escape violence-hit Manipur
Close to 2,000 passengers are stranded at the premises of the airport, the terminal building of which can handle only 750 passengers - 250 for arrival and 500 for departure - at a time. Army personnel rescue people from a violence-hit area of Manipur, Saturday, May 6, 2023. KOLKATA: Heart-wrenching scenes were witnessed at the Imphal airport which is overcrowded with passengers young and old, many of them ailing and wailing, eager to flee from Manipur which has been shaken by violence since last week. Patients with catheters just out of ICU, newborn and premature babies with mothers, women with advanced pregnancy, bed-ridden cancer patients, besides people with worry writ large on their faces, all thronged the airport in the past few days to take flights for places outside the state as soon as possible, officials said on Tuesday. Some of these passengers with bullet injuries have also been seen in the airport. "You would feel like crying if you see the scene at the Imphal airp...