Australia bound persons arrested

The Navy arrested 57 persons illegally bound for Australia in a multi-day trawler on August 16. The trawler Pushpa Rejini was intercepted 40 nautical miles off Pulmudai in Trincomalee.

Thirty-nine men, eight women and 10 children (six boys and four girls) were among the arrested. They are residents of Trincomalee, Jaffna, Batticaloa and Mannar.

The arrested persons that included 52 Tamils and five Sinhalese were brought to Trincomalee Harbour to be handed over to the CID for investigations.