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Sri Lanka Navy arrested 57 persons illegally bound for Australia in a multi-day trawler on 16th August 2012. The trawler named “Pushpa Rejini” was intercepted 40 nautical miles off Pigeon Island in Trincomalee. Thirty-nine (39) men, eight (08) women and 10 children (6 boys and 4 girls) were among the arrested. They are residents of Trincomalee, Jaffna, Batticaloa and Mannar.
The arrested persons that included 52 Tamils and 05 Sinhalese were brought to Trincomalee Harbour to be handed over to the CID for further investigations.