PTI, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Hundreds of fisherfolk today staged a rail roko at Kuzhithurai railway station on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border demanding steps to trace more than 1000 fishermen reportedly missing after they put to sea from Kanyakumari.
About 5000 people, including women and children, squatted on the rail track protesting alleged failure of the Tamil Nadu government on taking steps to trace those missing following cyclone Ockhi. Protesters also blocked the Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari national highway. People from nine coastal panchayats of Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu were staging the protest. A Johan Leonard, President of an outfit, the ‘Naithal Ezhuchi Peravai’, spearheading the agitation, said more than 1000 fishermen, who ventured into the sea in 112 boats, are yet to come back. Meanwhile, cyclone toll climbed to 36.
