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Guwahati, August 30 The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) will run a special train to Bangalore on September 1 to transport back people and students of the northeastern states who recently fled southern states, leaving their jobs and study out of panic over a "threat" that was doing the rounds in those states.NFR spokesman Jayanta Sarma said the special train would have 18 coaches. Anybody could travel in the train through it had been specially arranged for those who wanted to go back to their places of work and study in southern states. More such special trains might be arranged in future, depending on the requirement, he added.The Assam Government had earlier requested the Railways to run special trains to ferry back those who were willing to go back to the places of their work and study in southern states. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had said his government was ready to provide even special flight for return of those who had fled South India.About 40,000 persons of N-E origin, including about 20,000 from Assam, had left southern states recently out of panic. A sizeable number of those were from Manipur and Nagaland.