India And Lanka Join “Tiger” Investigation

India and Sri Lanka have joined an investigation into an incident in which the Maldivian coastguard sank an Indian fishing boat and arrested five men after a twelve-hour standoff.

The government has confirmed that the boat, which was set alight and sank on Thursday morning, was the Sri Krishna, registered in South India.

The boat was hijacked in March and eleven sailors were taken hostage, allegedly by the Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel group.

The government has now given India and Sri Lanka permission to question the five men detained, as both governments seek to substantiate the links to the LTTE (Tamil Tigers).

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