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Sri Lankan Navy sinks TN fishermen’s boat, arrests 4

Updated At : 09:32 PM Nov 29, 2018 IST

The personnel damaged the fishing nets and took away the GPS equipment, the police said. File photo

Rameswaram (TN), November 29

The Sri Lankan Navy allegedly sunk a boat belonging to fishermen hailing from Rameswaram, while they were fishing near Katchateevu and arrested four of them, the police said on Thursday.

The naval personnel chased the fishermen away and allegedly rammed their vessel into the fishermen’s late Wednesday night and took four of them away to the island nation, they said.

The personnel damaged the fishing nets and took away the GPS equipment, police added. PTI

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