Four more persons, including two children, from Sri Lanka reached Dhanushkodi in the early hours of Friday. The marine police brought them to the shore after the surveillance agencies spotted them near Arichalmunai.
Preliminary interrogation revealed that they were from Sri Lanka’s Mannar district. They have been identified as Nishanthan Fernando, 34; his wife Ranjitha, 29; daughter Jensitta, 10; and son Akash, 2.
Nishanthan told the police that he decided to go to India because of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and he lost his job and was left with very little money to run his family.