NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, AUG 22
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Sunday rescued eight refugees, including 3 children and an infant, from the island nation who were stranded for three days in the middle of the sea near Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu.
When personnel from the Indian Coast Guard spotted the refugees stranded at Arichalmunai, they intercepted and brought them to the shores in a hovercraft on Sunday.
இரண்டு வயது கைக்குழந்தையுடன் இலங்கையிலிருந்து தஞ்சம் தேடி வந்த 8 பேர், மூன்று நாட்களாக மீட்க யாருமின்றி கடலில் தத்தளித்து பின் இந்திய கடற்படையால் மீட்கப்பட்டு இராமேஸ்வரம் வந்து சேர்ந்தனர்.
வீடியோ- உ.பாண்டி#Srilanka | #Rameshwaram | #refugees pic.twitter.com/fTA1Wx8RrX— ஆனந்த விகடன் (@AnandaVikatan) August 21, 2022
Sources told that the refugees were brought to the Mandapam marine police station. They were identified as 36-year-old Chandrakumar and his wife Delchithiram with their seven-year-old son and two-month-old infant from Kilinochchi district in Sri Lanka. Moreover, 30-year-old Kirubakaran and his wife Nishanthi with their two daughters aged nine and four from Jaffna were also rescued by the ICG. Marine Police officials said the refugees would be handed over to the officials at the Mandapam Rehabilitation Centre.
According to sources, with the arrival of eight persons on Sunday, the number of refugees from Sri Lanka has increased to 142. Among them, one aged woman died of medical complications and exhaustion in Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai.
