A day after the Sri Lankan government declared a ‘holiday week’ for the schools in the island nation owing to an unending fuel crisis, eight Lankan Tamils, including three children, arrived at Dhanushkodi seeking refuge.

The number of refugees reaching TN shores in the last three months has gone up to 103.

The Marine police secured the group from Arichal Munai in Dhanushkodi and shifted them to the marine police station in Rameswaram for inquiries. They were later lodged at the Mandapam camp.

The eight refugees were identified as B Kamalarani (42), her children Iynkaren (19), Sreeram (14) and Nilani (9) of Valvettithurai area in the Jaffna region; Lavendern (24), his wife Sasikala (24) and their one-and-a-half-year-old son Kathir, and Selvaraja Vijayakanth (33) from Jaffna.