A Navy vessel attached to the Eastern Naval Command brought an ill fisherman aboard a multi-day fishing trawler to ashore for immediate treatment yesterday, Navy said.
On receipt of information from the Trincomalee Fisheries Inspector, the Navy dispatched the Fast Attack Craft to retrieve the patient who was vomiting blood. He had left for fishing practices from the Cod-bay fisheries harbour on 04th July aboard ‘Roshan Putha I’ multi day fishing trawler.
Accordingly, the patient was carefully transferred to the Fast Attack Craft about 90 nautical miles off the Foul Point, Trincomalee. After taking the fisherman to the Naval Dockyard, he was rushed to the General Hospital of Trincomalee for further treatment.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
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