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Boat carrying fleeing Rohingya refugees washes ashore in Indonesia

Rohingya Muslims

Drifting boat with Rohingyas reaches Indonesia. Rohingya men weak from hunger and dehydration.

Where: Indonesia

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On Sunday, a rickety boat with Rohingya refugees aboard landed on the Indonesian coast.
The wooden boat washed up in Indonesia’s Aceh Besar district with 58 Rohingya men aboard.
The refugees were “weak from hunger and dehydration.”
The UN’s refugee agency UNHCR issued an advisory last week about a boat of Rohingya refugees that had been adrift for several weeks in the Andaman Sea.
On Saturday, the UNHCR reported a separate boat that had possibly capsized, with 180 Rohingya presumed dead.

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