Missing for 15 days, Assam labourers ‘fled’ border road project, kin wait for answers
On May 30, neighbours Wayajed Ali, 25, and Abdul Amin, 24, bade goodbye to their families in a village in Assam’s Bongaigaon district. A contractor promised the two — sons of daily wagers and school dropouts — “a job in Bengal”. But it was in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar that the duo landed up three days later. From there, they travelled another 400 km north to Damin in Kurung Kumey district that borders China, where they set up camp to work on a road construction project with 30 other men from Assam.
Ali’s father Bakkar Ali says he heard from his son all of three times after he left home – first when he reached Itanagar,
