A boat from Myanmar with hundreds of migrants capsizes off Malaysia, 1 body found and 10 rescued

Malaysian authorities accidental a vessel carrying astir 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized past week successful the Indian Ocean adjacent to the borderline betwixt Thailand and Malaysia, with astatine slightest 1 assemblage recovered floating successful the sea, 10 rescued and dozens missing

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A vessel carrying astir 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized past week successful the Indian Ocean adjacent to the borderline betwixt Thailand and Malaysia, with at slightest 1 assemblage recovered floating successful the sea, 10 rescued and dozens missing, officials said Sunday.

The timing and the nonstop determination wherever the vessel sank sank were not instantly known.

A Malaysian authoritative said the vas apt capsized successful Thai waters, informing that cross-border syndicates are becoming progressively progressive successful exploiting migrants utilizing perilous oversea routes. A constabulary main said immoderate of those rescued were Rohingya Muslims, who chiefly unrecorded successful Myanmar wherever they person faced persecution for decades.

First Adm. Romli Mustafa, from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, said a preliminary probe indicates the vessel had departed from the municipality of Buthidaung, successful Myanmar's Rakhine state. and that it sank 3 days ago.

The bureau launched a hunt and rescue cognition connected Saturday, aft respective survivors were recovered drifting successful the waters adjacent Malaysia's bluish edifice land of Langkawi. The assemblage of a woman, believed to beryllium from Myanmar, was recovered floating successful the sea, helium added.

At slightest 10 radical were rescued from the incident, including a antheral from Bangladesh and respective from Myanmar, helium said. “There is simply a anticipation that much victims volition beryllium located arsenic the cognition continues,” Romli said successful a statement.

A Malaysian authorities constabulary main Adzli Abu Shah told nationalist Bernama quality bureau the vas apt sank successful Thai waters earlier the victims drifted into Malaysia.

In January, Malaysian authorities turned distant 2 boats carrying astir 300 radical believed to beryllium Muslim Rohingya refugees who were trying to participate the state illegally. Malaysia is simply a fashionable destination due to the fact that of its ascendant Malay Muslim population.

Malaysia has accepted Rohingya successful the past connected humanitarian grounds but has tried to bounds their numbers, fearing a wide influx of radical arriving connected boats.

There are astir 117,670 Rohingya refugees registered with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees successful Malaysia — astir 59% of the full exile colonisation successful Malaysia.

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