Navy rescues family fleeing uncleared areas

Vettilikerni: The Lanka Navy rescued yet another Tamil family who were fleeing uncleared areas close to Vettilikerni on Saturday. Sri Lanka Navy Patrol Craft on constant surveillance in the seas off Vettilikerni spotted an unidentified boat leaving the shores of Vettilikerni and intercepted it.

They rescued the persons on board after confirming that the boat was carrying innocent people. The family consisted of six, father and mother aged 44 and 42 years, two sons aged 22 and 14 years and two daughters aged 19 and 17 years.

They had fled Tallady due to atrocities of LTTE, on-board a fiber glass dinghy fitted with an out-board motor.

They were provided with their basic needs and other requirements on being rescued by the SLN.

Subsequently they revealed that they had fled the area as they could no longer bear up the hardships and pain inflicted on them by the LTTE.

The father said the LTTE had tried several times to forcefully conscript his young son, a youth who has been selected to the university and his daughters of whom one has just completed her A/L and the other who is studying for her A/L.