Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has strongly condemned the "killing" of three "Tamils" by Karnataka forest department and said the explanation given by them on the incident was "unacceptable."
Demanding a high-level probe into the forest department firing incident, the chief minister said it was "heartbreaking" that the Tamils - Anthony Samy, John Rose Peter, and Kumar, who lived in the villages in Hanur Taluk of Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka, were shot dead by the forest department in the early hours of August 15, in the Cauvery Wildlife sanctuary area.
