India’s mass exodus over rumors of violence continues (PHOTOS)
Indian minority residents wait on the platform of the city railway station to board trains.
Northeastern, ethnically distinct Indians continued to crowd into cars and trains to flee southern Indian cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Pune over the weekend.
The widespread panic is rooted in rumors, circulated largely by text message and on social media, that people from the northeast had been targeted by Muslims who were angered about the situation in Assam. There, the indigenous, Hindu Bodo tribe have been clashing with Bengali-speaking Muslims, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 people and the exodus of 400,000, GlobalPost's India correspondent Jason Overdorf reported.
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