Syrians who opted to stay in the town on Sunday kept a low profile: one group of Syrian men said they would cross into Syria once Turkey reopened the bordergate.
Ajjor owns a furniture factory within eyeshot of the Gaza-Israel border and can point out the gate through which not too long ago his products were shipped to Israel.
But the gate at Srirampur - on Assam's border with the neighbouring state of West Bengal - does not have a microchip reader so many of the elephants could be taken out undetected.