A day after close to 15000 people from the North-eastern states fled home from Bangalore, Union Home Secretary R K Singh says that those responsible for exodus will not go scot free. He reassured the people that the situation in Assam was fully under control.

However, despite the appeals and assurances of safety by the Karnataka government, people from the North-East continued to flee the state in hordes for the third consecutive day today, driven by rumours of impending attacks.

The exodus so far confined to Bangalore has now spread to some other parts with people of the North Eastern region living in Mysore, Mangalore and Kodagu arriving here in trains and buses and rushing to railway counters to buy tickets.

More than 15,000 people have fled the city in the past two days following the rumours, official sources said today. The Railways had sold 9,718 tickets for the two special trains that headed to Guwahati last night, Divisional Railway Manager, Bangalore, Anil Kumar Agarwal, said this morning.

Officials estimate the number of people from the northeast, including students, residing in Bangalore in the range of 2.5 lakh and 2.75 lakh. The government continued to reach out to the community urging them to stay on and assured them that it is committed to safeguarding their lives and property in Karnataka.