Midnight mayhem: Lankan navy hurl petrol bombs at fishermen

March 15, 2012 14:11

In yet another mid-sea attack, Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly hurled petrol bombs at a group of fishing boats from here, sinking one of them and damaging 20 others near Katchatheevu in the Palk Strait, officials said today.
The fishermen, who had put out to sea from here, came under the attack around midnight last night.

They said the Sri Lankan Naval personnel hurled petrol bombs at two boats. One of the vessel owned by one Arumugam sank while another narrowly escaped.

Four occupants of the sunk boat were rescued by the others and brought to the shore. Twenty other boats suffered damage when the Lankan Navalmen attacked them with a variety of missiles inlcuding bricks, rocks, they said.

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