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Seventeen Myanmar nationals leave hospital

Seventeen Myanmar nationals, out of the total 32 survivors rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy in the deep seas 250 nautical miles east of Sangamankanda on Saturday, were discharged from the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital hospital yesterday, the hospital's Deputy Director Jayampathi Senanayake said.


Ven Maligavila Assagi thera, Chief Incumbent of Galle Sri Gnanobhasa Meditation Centre who interpreted the statements by the rescued Myanmar nationals on Sunday. Picture by Mahinda P Liyanage, Galle Daily News correspondent

The 32 Myanmar nationals, the survivors of a group of 125 who had been marooned in Sri Lankan seas for 25 days, while towards Indonesia on aboard a makeshift vessel, were rescued by the Navy offshore patrol vessel attached to the Southern Naval Command on information received by some Sri Lankan fishermen who noticed their plight.

Navy personnel who brought the survivors that comprised 31 adults and a boy to the Galle harbour on Sunday, handed them over to the Galle Harbour Police who dispatched them to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital for emergency treatment as they were suffering from severe dehydration due to the long voyage and hunger.

Galle Harbour Police OIC Meshan de Silva said arrangements would be made to send the Myanmar nationals to a detention camp in Colombo through the Galle prisons following the receipt of a Court order.

The survivors discharged from hospital were to be produced before Galle Chief Magistrate U S Kalansuriya yesterday evening.

The Foreign Ministry will make arrangements to send the Myanmar nationals to their country Hospital sources said the remaining survivors under treatment will have to spend a few days at the hospital until they are fully recovered.

Hospital sources said a large number of locals visited the hospital displaying their concern towards the stricken Myanmar nationals who underwent a traumatic ordeal .

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