MMEA director-general Mohd Zubil Mat Som says those who died had fallen sick. FMTNews Rohingya Refugees MMEA
The survivors of the boat that came ashore in Langkawi have been detained and their future remains unclear.
He also recounted how the Rohingya had been transferred from a larger “motherboat” to a smaller vessel half-way through a voyage that began close to the Myanmar-Bangladesh border back in February. The Rohingya had risked the perilous sea journey south across the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, having lost hope of making a better life in the refugee camps in Bangladesh, where many of them had found sanctuary after fleeing their homes in Myanmar following a military crackdown in August 2017.
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