Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam attacked at sea and robbed
The HinduIn two separate incidents, five fishermen from Arcottuthurai coastal village in Nagapattinam district were attacked by unidentified persons, mid-sea, while they were fishing several nautical miles southeast of the Kodiyakkarai coast and robbed of their belongings around midnight on Friday, February 2, 2024. According to police sources, T. Ponnuthurai, 51, and S. Jeyachandran, 40, both hailing from Fishermen Colony in Arcottuthurai near Vedaranyam, had ventured into the sea in a fiberglass boat from their village, on Friday afternoon. G. Raman, 51, R. Ramesh, 28, and J. Sivakumar, 40, from the same village, had also ventured into the sea for fishing, in another fiberglass boat. When both groups of fishermen were fishing separately about 20 nautical miles southeast of the Kodiyakkarai coast at around midnight, four persons, suspected to be Sri Lankans, approached them, also on a fiberglass boat, and intercepted their boats.