Sri Lanka denies shooting Indian fisherman

Saturday, 15 January 2011 00:01 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

Colombo: Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday denied that the Sri Lankan Navy had fired on Indian fishermen, resulting in the death of one fisherman.

Talking over breakfast to foreign correspondents at his Temple Trees residence here, he said that the Sri Lankan Navy was not involved in the incident.

Asked if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken to him about the incident, he said that the Prime Minister had not. Asked if the Sri Lankan government would take action in the event of the firing being committed by its security forces, he said that despite the preliminary investigation which established that the Navy was not involved — he had asked the Navy Commander to conduct a detailed investigation.

The Sri Lankan Navy’s chief of operations, said that the incident occurred well within the Indian waters. “The sea is very shallow in these areas and the position of all our ships’ locations are monitored by land-based and other equipment. This is in the open and anyone can check,” he told The Hindu, denying that the Sri Lankan Navy had anything to do with the incident.

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