NEW DELHI: A total 799 people are currently lodged at Assam ’s detention centres for “declared” or convicted foreigners, and 26 detainees died on account of illness between 2017 and February 2020, the home ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Minister of state for home Nityanand Rai said that as per the information provided by the government of Assam, 799 detainees were held in detention centres of Assam as on February 27, 2020. Out of these, 95 detainees have completed three years or more in detention, he said in written reply to a question.As many as 26 died during their detention period due to illness in the past three years and the current year, of which six deaths were reported in 2017, nine in 2018, 10 in 2019 and one in the current year.There are six detention centres operational in Assam located at Goalpara, Kokrajhar, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat & Tezpur In pursuance of the Supreme Court order dated 10/5/2019 for conditional release of declared foreigners who have completed more than three years in the detention centres, 224 detainees have been set free so far.