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Twelve fishermen were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel in two separate incidents when they were fishing off the Tamil Nadu coast, officials said. Four of those attacked have been hospitalised, they said. In the first incident, four fishermen from Nagapattinam district were assaulted by the naval personnel, who boarded their boat and got into an argument with them over reportedly fishing outside Indian territorial waters late last evening. The naval personnal also damaged their ...

Naval spokesman Commander Kosala Warnakulasuriya said that they were nabbed off the coast of Oluvil on the island nation's eastern coast this morning. The group consisted of 39 men, 18 women and 40 children. All of them are of Tamil origin.

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Four fishermen were attacked with long knives allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel off Kodiakkarai in Vedaranyam in the early hours of Wednesday. The boat reached here about 8.30 a.m....

Large number of fishermen from Tamil Nadu were today attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel with stones and bottles while fishing off Katchatheevu, causing damage to some boats, officials said. The fishermen from here, Mandapam and other coastal ...

NEW DELHI, May 3: Angered by the continuing attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by Sri Lankan naval authorities, the state's Legislative Assembly today renewed its demand to the Government of India to regain the administrative control over Kachchatheevu ...

Opposition leader in the Assembly V Vaithilingam Tuesday urged the government to arrest Sri Lankan naval forces allegedly involved in incidents of firing at fishermen and attacks on them.

A middle-aged fisherman, hailing from the univon territory of Karaikal was injured when Sri Lankan naval personnel fired indiscriminately at a group of 12 fisherman near Kodiyakarai coast in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu

The Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission here said in a statement that an "investigation revealed that Sri Lankan naval vessels had not entered Indian waters at any time either on 6 or 7 March as alleged."