Nine fishermen return home after 20-month incarceration in Iran
The Hindu
When the below poverty line family from Pallam Annai Nagar near Kanniyakumari saw its sole breadwinner S. Sahaya Vijay, 23, flying to Kuwait in October 2019 to work in a fishing trawler, the family, w
When the below poverty line family from Pallam Annai Nagar near Kanniyakumari saw its sole breadwinner S. Sahaya Vijay, 23, flying to Kuwait in October 2019 to work in a fishing trawler, the family, which had lost its head only a year ago to a mid-sea mishap, hoped that the youth would bail the family out of poverty.
But he has returned home empty-handed after 20 months of incarceration in an Iranian prison along with eight of his colleagues, also from Kanniyakumari district. After Mr. Sahaya Vijay lost his father Sahayam in a mid-sea tragedy in December 2018 when his catamaran capsized, the youth, a SSLC dropout, decided go abroad to work in a fishing trawler as a good number of fishermen from Kanniyakumari district are working in mechanised boats in the Middle East and earn a decent income.
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