Sri Lankans land in Bengkulu

Sri Lankans land in Bengkulu

BENGKULU, Bengkulu: Navy officials have been questioning four
Sri Lankan fishermen who drifted ashore in Bengkulu on Saturday.

Chief of the local navy post command Lt. Col. Simon Silalahi
told Antara news agency that his office would find out whether
the fishermen had really drifted or intentionally entered
Indonesia illegally.

"They claimed they entered Indonesia because their vessel was
leaky," Silalahi said.

Silalahi, however, refused to give the identity of the aliens
who landed on Baai Island without proper immigration documents.

"We will send them back through the Sri Lankan embassy in
Jakarta," Nurdin Rusmin, head of local immigration office said.
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