The Maldives has arrested seven foreigners who left the country illegally by trawler and were headed for a US military base on Diego Garcia, a minister said on Tuesday.
The foreigners were intercepted in the locally hired boat on Monday off the Maldives' southernmost atoll of Addu heading to Diego Garcia several hundred kilometres away, said Mohamed Shareef, a minister attached to the president's office.
He did not give the nationalities of the seven, but local newspaper Haveeru said they were Germans and Italians.
Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, is currently leased to the United States, which operates a highly-guarded military base used for bombing raids on Afghanistan and Iraq. Full story...
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The foreigners were intercepted in the locally hired boat on Monday off the Maldives' southernmost atoll of Addu heading to Diego Garcia several hundred kilometres away, said Mohamed Shareef, a minister attached to the president's office.
He did not give the nationalities of the seven, but local newspaper Haveeru said they were Germans and Italians.
Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, is currently leased to the United States, which operates a highly-guarded military base used for bombing raids on Afghanistan and Iraq. Full story...
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