Sri Lankan naval personnel
allegedly pelted stones and snapped fishing nets of Tamil Nadu
fishermen when they were fishing near Katchatheevu today,
officials said. Fishermen from this island had put out to sea in about 600
boats last night and were fishing in different locations near
Katchatheevu, an islet ceded by India to the neighbouring
country in the 1970s, when the Sri Lankan navalmen warned them
to go back. However as the fishermen had anchored their boats they took
some some time to move away. In the meanwhile, the Sri Lankan
navalmen snapped their fishing nets and pelted stones at the
fishing boats, damaging one of them. No one was injured in the
incident, officials said. Incidentally, the fishermen had resumed fishing activities
only yesterday after calling off their strike to protest
recent diesel price hike.
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