At least 180 ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead, as their rickety boat is thought to have sunk this month, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
Citing unconfirmed reports, the agency said the “unseaworthy” boat probably sank after it went missing in the sea.
“Relatives have lost contact,” the UNHCR wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “Those last in touch presume all are dead.” More than 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are living in crowded camps in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, including tens of thousands who fled Myanmar after its military conducted a deadly crackdown in 2017.
In Buddhist-majority Myanmar most Rohingya Muslims are denied citizenship and are seen as interlopers, illegal immigrants from South Asia.
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