Pakistan Maritime Security Agency has captured 24 Indian fishermen along with their four boats near international Maritime boundary line off Gujarat Coast in Arabian Sea. According to National Fish workers’ Forum, the incident took place on Thursday afternoon off Jakhau coast in Gujarat.
Secretary of National Fish Workers Forum Manish Lodhari has said that Pakistan Maritime Security Agency had fired few rounds on Indian fishing boats in which one Indian fisherman was also injured. However, the Pakistani Agency later released injured fisherman along with five others. They reached at Jakhau port of Gujarat last night where the injured fisherman is stated out of danger.
The injured fisherman was identified as Dhanji Bamaniya of Diu. But other 24 fishermen apprehended by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency have been taken to Karachi port along with their four boats. All these boats had ventured in to sea for fishing from Mangrol port of Saurashtra last week.
This is the second incident of firing on Indian fisherman by Pakistani Agency in recent time. Earlier, on 18th September one fisherman from Okha port of Gujarat was killed in firing by Pakistani Agency near International Maritime Boundary Line.