At least 138 Brus including 51 minors, belonging to 26 families returned to Mizoram from Tripura relief camps on the fourth day of the sixth phase of repatriation today, Mizoram home department officials said.
Officials said that 15 families were received at the Kanhmun facilitation centre while 11 families were received at the Zomuantlang facilitation by the Mamit district administration officials where verification whether repatriated Brus were bona fide residents of Mizoram or not.
Medical officers on duty at the facilitation centres conducted thorough medical check-up on those who arrived at the centres before being taken to their respective villages.
The repatriated Brus were resettled in ten villages in the Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border Mamit district after being given 20 kilos of rice to each person.
Altogether 806 people including 245 children belonging to 156 families have returned in the sixth phase of repatriation which commenced from Tuesday.
