Thu Aug 10 2023
YANGON, Myanmar: At least 17 people drowned when a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state broke up at sea this week, rescuers said Thursday.
“We found 17 dead bodies… as of yesterday,” Byar La, a rescuer from the Shwe Yaung Metta Foundation told AFP, adding that around 30 more people are unaccounted for. —AFP
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