Six more Sri Lankans, fleeing the economic crisis-hit country, arrived in Tamil Nadu on ⛦Wednesday, officials said.
Sri Lanka Crisis: Scores of Lankans, mostly Tamils, have entered India through Tamil Nadu in recent months as ♏they were unable to survive the crisis that has crippled the island nation.
Six more Sri Lankans, fleeing the economic crisis-hit country, arrived in Tamil Nadu on ⛦Wednesday, officials said.
Three of them were children.
The two different families had left their hometown of Jaffna in Sri Lanka and arrived inဣ Ra🐲meswaram by a boat before officials rescued them from an islet and took them to the Mandapam refugee camp.
Scores of Lankans, mostly Tamils, have entered the co🥀untry through Tamil Nadu in recent months as they were unable to survive the crisis that has crippled the island nation. Prices of essential commodities have been skyrocketing there.
Last week, seven people belo♈nging to two families in Lanka arrived here.
The two families, dropped near Ram💦eswaram island by boatmen, were rescued by the Indian Coast Guard and brought to Dhanushkodi and hande🐻d over to the police.
(With PTI inputs)