India opens safe harbour to 25 Sri Lankan fishing boats
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1 min readFrom 5 outlets- Daily Mirror and Ada Derana report permission for about 25 Sri Lankan boats to shelter in Indian waters.
- Daily Mirror attributes the permission to diplomatic intervention by Sri Lanka’s fisheries ministry.
- Newsfirst reports more than 30,000 Indian boats returned to Andhra Pradesh ports.
- Newsfirst reports red alerts for seven Andhra Pradesh districts.
Daily Mirror and Ada Derana report that India has allowed about 25 Sri Lankan multi-day fishing vessels to enter its territorial waters and take shelter from Cyclone Arnab. WhatNews says the boats had been unable to return to Sri Lanka, while Hiru News’s Sinhala and Tamil services also report that Sri Lankan boats in the Bay of Bengal were permitted to seek refuge in Indian waters.
Daily Mirror reports that the permission followed diplomatic intervention by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries, Aquatic and Marine Resources. WhatNews attributes the arrangement to the Sri Lankan High Commission in India, although its report excerpt does not provide further details.
Newsfirst reports that more than 30,000 Indian fishing boats had returned to ports in Andhra Pradesh amid the cyclone threat, and that red alerts were issued for seven districts in the state. Its report says the storm was about 650 kilometres away, but the excerpt does not specify the reference point.
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