At least 180 ethnic Rohingya who left Bangladesh by boat in November may have died after being stranded in an unseaworthy vessel with no food or water - UNHCR
UNHCR has repeatedly urged Asian countries to rescue around 190 Rohingya on verge of perishing between Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.
“The UNHCR has received unconfirmed reports of a…boat with 180 Rohingya missing in the sea. Relatives have lost contact. Those last in touch presume all are dead. We hope against hope this is not the case,” it said in a tweet on Saturday. The UNHCR in a statement on December 23 said that 190 desperate people were on the verge of perishing at sea, adrift somewhere between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal as pleas to Asian countries to rescue and disembark them are continuously ignored.
Some 154 refugees in a boat were rescued by a Vietnamese oil service vessel on December 8 and handed over to the Myanmar navy, while the other boat carrying 104 refugees was rescued by the Sri Lankan navy on December 18 in Kankesanturai Harbor.
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