Life at stake for the refugees who are fleeing from Srilanka due to heavy economic crises.

Location: Thanushkoodi Ramanathapuram district in Tamilnadu.

With a 4 month old baby a couple from Sri Lanka crossed international borders by sailing 37 hours on sea.

A window who is the parent of two kids also faced the same fate to reach India as these refugees enter Illegally.

Economic crisis in the island country may promote more families to flee.

Refugees were dropped off the sand dunes at midnight illegally. There are around 13 sand dunes between India and Sri Lanka.


First batch of refugees were picked up by a Cost guard Hovercraft. While the second group arrived late in the evening..

Earlier in 1980 s due to the civil war many escaped the country and later on now due to the economic crisis Sri Lankan internationals are fleeing to India.