Ten Sri Lankan nationals clandestinely reached the shores of Rameswaram island in the early hours of Wednesday. Among them were two men, two women, a youth and five children.
According to police sources, the Sri Lankans had come there, from Mannar, on a boat, and were dropped at an islet along the Mugutharayachathiram sea shore. Marine police personnel conducted an inquiry and took them to a rehabilitation camp at Mandapam.
With the new arrivals, the total number of Sri Lankans who have fled their crisis-hit nation and reached Tamil Nadu has increased to 209. One of them, an elderly man, died after reaching the State. – The Hindu