10 more Sri Lankans illegally reach India’s Rameswaram
Posted by Editor on November 24, 2022 - 10:20 am
Ten Sri Lankan nationals clandestinely reached the shores of Rameswaram island in India in the early hours of Wednesday (November 23).
Among them were two men, two women, a youth and five children.
According to police sources, the Sri Lankans had come here from Mannar on a boat and were dropped at an islet along the Mugutharayachathiram sea shore.
Marine police personnel conducted an inquiry and took them to a rehabilitation camp at Mandapam.
With the new arrivals, the total number of Sri Lankans who have fled their crisis-hit nation and reached Tamil Nadu has increased to 209.
One of them, an elderly man, died after reaching the State.
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