LAKELAND OBSERVER
By Lakeland Staff Writer
on April 1, 2019
on April 1, 2019
In this Nov. 4, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslims use yellow plastic drums as flotation devices as they arrive at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, after swimming the Naf river. (AP)
Nabi Hussain owes his life to a yellow plastic oil drum. The 13-year-old Rohingya boy could not swim, and had never even seen the sea before fleeing his village in Myanmar. But he clung to the empty drum and struggled across the water with it for about 2.5 miles, all the way to Bangladesh.