Indonesia rescuers save 69 Rohingya refugees at sea

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 22, 2024 12:18 am

MEULABOH, Indonesia: Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded on the rusty hull of a capsized ship were rescued on Thursday after the dehydrated and sunburnt group had drifted at sea for more than a day.

The group included 69 men, women and children, some of whom had been at sea for weeks on a rickety wooden boat from squalid camps in Bangladesh, where many of them have fled.

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