Coast guards intercept suspected foreign vessel off Kerala coast
Reports said the boat along with its crew of 12 has been taken to Vizhinjam and handed over to the state police.
The alert from Kerala Police had come on Friday, after which the Coast Guard started conducting a special surveillance from two of its ships and a dornier.
The Dornier spotted the craft close to midnight on Friday while the two Coast Guard vessels shadowed it.
Just before dawn on Saturday, a team from the ICGS Samar, one of the coast guard ships, boarded the fishing boat, Barooki, which was flying an Iranian flag.
The boat and its crew were taken to Vizhinjam, where a joint interrogation is being carried by the Intelligence Bureau, state intelligence, local police, scientific experts and bomb disposal squad.
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