New Delhi: Several states have evacuated or are trying to evacuate people in Manipur since May 3, when violence broke out in parts of Manipur over a demand for Scheduled Tribe status by the Meiti community and hill tribes' opposition to it.

Times of India reported on May 7 that the Tripura government has evacuated 208 students. Most of them are medical students studying at the Regional Institute of Medical Science. The Tripura government also arranged for another flight to transport 37 agriculture students. Both sets were brought back to Agartala, Tripura's capital.

Top cops aided these journeys and are trying to bring back 24 more students, the report said.

Meanwhile, The Hindu reported that the Andhra Pradesh government has made efforts to bring back more than 150 students in Imphal. A top bureaucrat has reached out to the Ministry of Civil Aviation at the Union government, to help with a special flight that can bring back the students to Hyderabad or Vijayawada.

The Shillong Times reports that evacuation of students by the Meghalaya government is already afoot. Meghalaya health minister Ampareen Lyngdoh told the paper that 67 students from the state, studying in the Central Agricultural University at Imphal, landed at Guwahati Airport on Friday evening in the first phase. RIMS students will be evacuated as well.

The news agency ANI reports a similar exercise by the Nagaland government, which is learned to have evacuated 676 civilians from Manipur with assistance from the Assam Rifles.

According to an IANS report run by The News Minute, Telangana is learned to have sent an aircraft to evacuate residents from Manipur. Around 250 students from Telangana are studying in Imphal and other areas.

The latest toll in the violence, according to Indian Express, is 52.

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