The U.N. refugee agency has sounded the alarm for an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift on the Andaman Sea.
BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency on Monday sounded the alarm for about 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift on the Andaman Sea.
The agency, also called UNHCR, worries that all aboard could die without efforts to rescue them, said Babar Baloch, its Bangkok-based regional spokesperson.
The captain of one boat, contacted by the AP on Saturday, said he had 180 to 190 people on board, they were out of food and water and the engine was damaged.
The location is about the same distance from Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on the island of Sumatra, where another boat with 139 people landed Saturday, UNHCR’s Baloch said.
About 740,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to the camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 after a brutal counterinsurgency campaign tore through their communities.
Myanmar security forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and the burning of thousands of Rohingya homes.
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BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency on Monday sounded the alarm for about 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift on the Andaman Sea.
The agency, also called UNHCR, worries that all aboard could die without efforts to rescue them, said Babar Baloch, its Bangkok-based regional spokesperson.
The captain of one boat, contacted by the AP on Saturday, said he had 180 to 190 people on board, they were out of food and water and the engine was damaged.
The location is about the same distance from Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on the island of Sumatra, where another boat with 139 people landed Saturday, UNHCR’s Baloch said.
About 740,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to the camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 after a brutal counterinsurgency campaign tore through their communities.
Myanmar security forces have been accused of mass rapes, killings and the burning of thousands of Rohingya homes.
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