Andaman police apprehends 10 Burmese nationals

Port Blair, Nov 25 (UNI) The Andaman and Nicobar police has apprehended 10 Burmese nationals from the deep forest of North Andaman Islands in an ongoing anti-poaching operation, police today said.

''The crackdown was launched on receipt of information about a Burmese ''dingy'' (small boat) near Burmanallah,'' Andaman's Superintendent of Police Jaspal Singh told UNI today.

Mr Singh said following the tip off, Andaman and Nicobar police launched a massive operation in the nearby jungles of Burmanallah and Landfall Island to apprehend the Burmese nationals, who appeared to have escaped into the dense forest of the area. However, police subsequently nabbed 10 of them.

The police party also recovered three wooden ''dingies'' submerged in the sea water at Boatnallah, four engines fitted with polar and HSD oil at the sea shore of Bengali Dera concealed under the sand.

''The combing operation is still continuing in the nearby jungle area of Burmanallah at Landfall Island,'' Mr Singh added.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, geographically closer to countries like Burma and Myanmar, are often targets of the poachers, who come here for poaching the sea wealth of the Andaman Sea.

Often, these poachers stay for weeks in makeshift camps in some remote uninhabited islands of Andaman and Nicobar Chain illegally to collect Sea Cucumber from the coastal belt by diving.

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