Sonu Sood funds another chartered flight for over 170 migrant workers

Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has funded another chartered flight to help fly over 170 migrant workers to Dehradun in Uttrakhand from the city, in an aircraft operated by budget airline AirAsia India.

The Airbus A320 plane with 173 migrants onboard left from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) at around 1.57 pm, an AirAsia India spokesperson told Press Trust of India.

It landed at the Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun at 4:41 pm, the spokesperson said.

"As another charter flight takes flight today, our efforts to help migrant workers stranded in various parts of the country have only grown stronger.