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boat 111 people on-board is escorted by the SL Navy
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A
group of 111 illegal immigrants that were rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy on
their boat trip to Australia, has been
handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department. Sri Lanka Navy captured
all the Australia-bound persons in the deep seas of Southern Sri Lanka. They
were intercepted by Sri Lanka Navy's Offshore Patrol Vessel, SLNS Samudura with
the assistance of two fast naval patrol craft attached to the Southern Naval
Command 220 Kilometers south of Galle. Among
the 111 arrested persons are 03 Sinhalese and 108 Tamils that included 46 men,
20 women and 45 children. They are residents of Batticaloa, Trincomalee,
Vavuniya, Puttalam, Jaffna and Mullaithivu.
Despite
Sri Lanka Navy's efforts and Australia's recent measure of sending the boat
people directly to Nauru and Papua New Guinea, would-be asylum seekers continue
attempting to migrate to Australia.
