ফের রোহিঙ্গাবাহী নৌকা ডুবি, ১২ লাশ ।। At least 12 drown as another Rohin...

At least ten individuals sunken and dozens additional ar missing when a ship packed with Rohingya fleeing to People's Republic of Bangladesh sank on Mon, the newest victims of a half-million-strong exodus sparked by a military crushing in Myanmar.

The boat was carrying associate degree calculable fifty individuals once it went down within the water of the Naf stream that divides the 2 countries, Border Guard People's Republic of Bangladesh space commander colonel S.M. Ariful Islam told alpha fetoprotein.

Nearly two hundred Rohingya ar identified to possess have sunken over the last six weeks creating the precarious crossing to People's Republic of Bangladesh, several in little wood fishing boats that ar hazardously full
Islam aforesaid twenty one survivors had swum to safety when the tiny fishing trawler turned, and coast and border guards were conducting a probe and operation within the Naf stream.

Sheikh Ashrafuzzaman, a senior lawman, told alpha fetoprotein authorities had recovered the bodies of six youngsters and 4 ladies.

"The accident happened throughout early morning prayers," aforesaid Shams Uddin, an area resident United Nations agency witnessed the disaster. "I assume the boat turned because the boatmen tried to succeed in the shore against the returning currents."

Some 536,000 Rohingya have arrived in People's Republic of Bangladesh over the last seven weeks, fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, wherever the international organization has defendant troops of waging associate degree group action campaign against them.

The unsettled Muslim minority has two-faced decades of ill-usage in principally Buddhist Myanmar