He Was Among Dozens Crammed Into a Trawler’s Cargo Hold. Then the Boat Capsized.

The New York Times
By Verena Hölzl
Reporting from Bangkok
Published April 16, 2026Updated April 19, 2026

 Hundreds of migrants from Bangladesh, including Rohingya refugees, are feared dead after a boat to Malaysia overturned.

A Rohingya survivor being carried on a bamboo stretcher to a hospital at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, after being rescued last week from a capsized boat.Credit...Suzauddin Rubel/Associated Press

For two days and one night the teenager drifted in the open sea, holding on to a piece of wood. He had been on a boat that was supposed to take him to a better life. But it capsized in the middle of the Andaman Sea last week.