Three more fishermen from Nagapattinam district were allegedly attacked and robbed of their belongings, by a group of unidentified persons mid-sea, late on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, while they were fishing several nautical miles away from the Kodiyakkarai coast.
The three fishermen managed to return to the Vedaranyam coast on Wednesday morning. Police identified them as Vaithiyanathaswamy, Selvaraj, and Ramaraj, all natives of Vellapallam, who had ventured into the sea for fishing on August 21.
Police sources said six unidentified persons in two boats intercepted the fishermen mid-sea, around 15 nautical miles from Kodiyakkarai around midnight. They allegedly attacked the fishermen using wooden logs and stole their signal lights, Global Positioning System (GPS) gadgets, mobile phones, and fish.
