Fishermen from Kanyakumari netted a rocket shell in the sea near Chinna Muttom on Monday.
Vincent and three others had ventured into the sea from Chinna Muttom on Sunday night. When they were fishing one and half nautical miles from the shore, they found a metal object like a rocket-shell weighing over 12 kg and measuring 2 feet in their net. They immediately alerted the Coastal Security Zone (CSZ) personnel, who recovered the shell .
An official attached to CSZ told The Hindu the Bomb Disposal Squad from Madurai has been summoned to defuse it. Fishermen had netted a few rocket shells in 2007 in Kanyakumari.
