DAILY SABAH
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh
Published
11.02.2020
In this Sept. 14, 2017 photo, Rohingya Muslim arrive on a boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. (AP Photo)
At least 16 people drowned and dozens more were unaccounted for after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh early Tuesday, officials said.
Some 130 people were packed on the fishing trawler that was trying to get across the Bay of Bengal to Malaysia, coast guard spokesman Hamidul Islam told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Seventy of them had so far been rescued.