Two families, comprising seven persons, from Sri Lanka’s Jaffna and Trincomalee districts reached here by illegal vessels in the early hours of Tuesday.
An Indian Coast Guard patrol brought them to the shores and handed them over to the Marine Police.
Preliminary inquiries revealed that the two families had paid ₹1 lakh each to the fishermen in Sri Lanka and reached Indian waters at Arichalmunai around 3 a.m.
