Karnataka Lockdown: Cities begin to see an exodus of students, labourers

Karnataka government decided to impose a 14-day statewide lockdown from May 10 to May 24 amid the raging second wave of coronavirus. The main purpose of the 14-day shutdown is to control public movement as much as possible in order to combat coronavirus. Outstation students and labourers are seen abandoning cities and heading for their villages as they are worried more about their safety.(Image Credit: DH Photos)

Mass exodus of labourers continues 24-hours before lockdown imposed in Karnataka.

Railway station and bus depots witnessed heavy footfall.

Migrants leave for their home states amid coronavirus second wave of the pandemic.

Workers along with their families arrive to board a train in Bengaluru.

Migrant workers and others arrive to catch trains in Bengaluru.

Workers leave Bengaluru before the statewide lockdown imposed to combat coronavirus, in Karnataka.

Migrant workers, desperate to return to their hometowns, arrive at a railway station in Bengaluru.

Migrant people load a motorbike on a pickup van as they leave the city before the statewide lockdown imposed to combat coronavirus, in Bengaluru.

Migrant workers flee COVID-hit Bengaluru.