LTTE behind killing of five Indian fishermen, says TN police

The LTTE was behind the killing of five Indian fishermen off the Kanyakumari Coast on March 29, Tamil Nadu police said.

DGP D Mukherjee, in a statement here tonight, said this was revealed during the interrogation of six LTTE cadre arrested on April 11 last off Tuticorin Coast.

He said 12 Indian fishermen, who had been reported missing since March 4 last, were abducted by the sea tigers and were in the LTTE's custody now.

The Q branch CID, which took up the investigation of the case on April 23 interrogated the six. The interrogation revealed that the six belonged to the LTTE's sea tiger wing and were involved in smuggling of arms and ammunition from a LTTE ship in the high seas and transporting them to the LTTE camps in Sri lanka, he said.

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