Information About Incident 53689-104839-264403 in Colombo Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka Navy on January 21 arrested two people, including a former Sea Tiger [cadre of the Se Wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)] attempting to enter the island illegally under cover from the northwestern coast, the Navy reported on January 22, according to Colombo Page.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Sri Lanka Sea Tiger Colombo
• Matched District: Colombo
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Sri Lanka Navy
• Subject: two people , including a former Sea Tiger [ cadre of the Se Wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) ] attempting to enter the island illegally under cover from the northwestern coast

Context

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Sri Lanka Navy on January 21 arrested two people, including a former Sea Tiger [cadre of the Se Wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)] attempting to enter the island illegally under cover from the northwestern coast, the Navy reported on January 22, according to Colombo Page. The two ethnic Tamils were dropped off by a hired Indian boat at the 9th Sand Bank off the coast of Thalaimannar and were swimming to the 8th Sand Bank when the naval personnel attached to the North-western Naval Command spotted them and arrested. Preliminary investigations reveal that one of the arrestee is a resident of Muttur who has undergone LTTE Sea Tiger training in 2005 and fled to India in 2006. The other, a 44-year-old man from Mannar, was a fisherman who has fled to India in 2007.

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