Hundreds of Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, on a fishing trawler were intercepted after trying to make landfall in Bangladesh. A survivor says at least 28 people had died in a two-month effort to reach Malaysia.
A handout photo released on April 5 by Malaysia shows a trawler carrying Rohingya migrants off the island of Langkawi. It was not immediately clear if it was the same vessel as rescued late Wednesday off Bangladesh's coast.A handout photo released on April 5 by Malaysia shows a trawler carrying Rohingya migrants off the island of Langkawi. It was not immediately clear if it was the same vessel as rescued late Wednesday off Bangladesh's coast.
An official was quoted by The Associated Press as saying 382 survivors were aboard, but Reuters reports that the number was later revised upward to 396. Earlier this month, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency officials said they had detained a boat carrying some 200 suspected Rohingya refugees to prevent it from making landfall at the island of Langkawi. It is unclear whether the trawler rescued off Bangladesh is the same one.newspaper as Md Jobair, said the refugees had set to sea two months previous and had approached the Malaysian coast.
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