COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s police arrested 75 would-be asylum seekers on Wednesday, including nine women and six children, who were trying to leave for New Zealand illegally by boat, police said.
The group was arrested in the southern coastal town of Moragolla, the first large-scale arrest of nationals in months after Australia, long a favorite destination for Sri Lanka’s refugees, tightened its borders.
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