India, Feb. 16 -- A second military flight carrying Indian citizens deported by the US for illegally entering the country landed in Amritsar late on Saturday, bringing 117 people - most of whom were from Punjab.

The United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster jet landed at the airport around 11.30pm and on-board were 65 from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and Goa and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, people aware of the matter said.

Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann reached the city on Friday to receive the deportees.

The landing marks the second such deportation operation in a little over a week, intensifying a crackdown that has se...