A petrol bomb attack on a refugee camp occupied by Tamil refugees has left over 35 houses destroyed.
The attack on Sunday in Thiruvarangulam, Pudukottai district, came after local villagers started claiming the land and threatened the refugees to leave the camp, the Times of India reported.
No one was injured in the attack.
The land was allocated to the refugees in the 1980s, while Indira Gandhi was prime minister.
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