Sri Lankan fishermen, who had entered into Indian waters off Andhra Pradesh coast for fishing, had ‘abducted’ two coast guard sailors when the Indian coast guard apprehended them early this week.
Intelligence sources said a coast guard patrol vessel had intercepted the Lankan fishermen when they were found fishing in seven boats in Indian waters off Andhra Pradesh coast early this week.
After intercepting the boats, the Coast guard personnel deployed two sailors on each of the seven boats before towing them towards the city to be handed over to the Kasimedu Police for arrest and remand.
The Sources said after deploying the sailors in the Lankan boats, they could not be towed immediately due to ”bad weather” or reasons best known to the Coast Guard.
When they started the process of towing the boats to Chennai, it was found that the seventh boat with five Lankan fishermen and two Coast Guard sailors were ”missing”.
One version had it that the fishermen after overpowering the two sailors, ”abducted” them to Sri Lanka, while intelligence sources said, ”the sailors are missing and a search has been launched”.
”The sailors are safe,” a highly placed source told UNI, but refused to part with other details.
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