'Please get us a car': Panicked migrants leaving Nuh, Gurugram after violence

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As communal violence gripped Haryana's Nuh on Monday with its aftermath spilling over to neighbouring Gurugram, several migrant families are considering leaving the state and returning to their hometowns for a while due to the prevailing situation and the fear of being attacked by miscreants...

A large number of people who work as labourers, maids, drivers, gardeners and street hawkers in Gurugram and Nuh have migrated to these areas from other states..

Police have been present here since night but my family is scared and we are leaving the city, said Rehmat Ali, who hails from West Bengal and lives in a slum in Sector 70A in Gurugram...

According to the police, several people, most of them from the Muslim community, living in slums in Wazirabad, Ghata village, Sector 70A and Badshahpur in Gurugram, were returning to their native places...

A senior police officer admitted that some migrant workers who work as drivers, gardeners, street hawkers, servants and maids are going back to their native places due to fear...

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