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Foreigners Detained On The Way To Diego Garcia, Site Of U.S. Military Base

August 11 2015

Maldives

Maldivian authorities say they have arrested a group of foreigners who left the country illegally and were bound for a U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, reports Agence France-Presse.

Seven people were arrested on a local trawler on Monday off the southernmost atoll of Addu, said a representative from the president's office. Local media said those arrested were Germans and Italians.

Diego Garcia, located about 435 miles away from Addu, is a British territory in the Indian...

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