Indian Coast Guard rescues seven fishermen off Tillangchong Island

Indian Coast Guard (ICG) located and rescued a distressed fishing boat ‘RSN-TWO’ with seven crew onboard off the Tillangchong Island, approximately 350 kms south of Port Blair.

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Tillangchong is an island and a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

The island is a part of the Nicobar Islands chain, located in the northeast Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

The island has the largest surviving populations of the endemic Nicobar megapode (Megapodius nicobariensis), and is a protected sanctuary.