Those on board Pak boat did not look like fishermen: Coast Guard

January 03, 2015 12:28

CNN-IBN reports: Indian Coast Guard ships and aircraft are continuing operations to search for wreckage and dead bodies in the area where they intercepted a Pakistani boat on the intervening night of December 31 and January 1.

Coast Guard IG Kuldeep Singh on Saturday said, "In the afternoon of December 1, we had positively identified a suspected boat 265 km south west of Porbandar. We tried to stop the boat and communicate with it, but there was no response from the boat."

"They switched on the light for some time and when we saw that those on board did not look like fishermen, the boat did not respond to out repeated signals but after sometime they themselves blew up the boat," he said.

Coast Guard is continuing its operations in the Arabian Sea. According to sources, the Pakistani boat was tracked after a conversation from Karachi about delivering a huge consignment to India was intercepted.

On the current situation of the boat, the IG said, "We are investigating, the area is under surveillance and we are trying to recover something from it, haven't found anything yet."

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