Navy detains four Lankans

Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, Oct 23 (UNI) The Indian Navy today detained four Sri Lankans, suspected to be LTTE, at Devil point near here.

Police said a naval patrol vessel spotted a fibre glass boat fitted with a five speed engine entering the Indian water this morning.

The naval patrol team chased the boat and detained the four occupants of the boat, who were identified as Sudarsanan(24), Kandeepan(21), Ilayaraja(29) and Guhaneshwaran(28), hailing from Jaffna in Sri Lanka.

They were later handed over to Rameswaram police for interrogation and the boat was seized.

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