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Sorry - this page has been removed. Hundreds of Rohingya refugees rescued from boats off Indonesian coast
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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. Nearly 600 migrants thought to be Rohingya refugees from Burma have been rescued from two wooden boats stranded off the coast of northern Aceh province in Indonesia.
The overcrowded boats, which were carrying dozens of children among the refugees, were towed to shore by fishermen after running out of fuel, authorities said on Sunday.
For further information, please contact: “According to the information we have so far, the people on board are from Burma. They are Muslim, from the Rohingya community,” said Mohammed Arif Mutaqin, spokesman for the Aceh search and rescue agency.
The migrants left Thailand about seven days ago and some died during the journey, authorities said.
Of those rescued, about 50 were taken to the hospital. “In general, they were suffering from starvation and many were very thin,” said north Aceh police chief Achmadi.
An estimated 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded people-smugglers’ boats in the first three months of this year, twice as many in the same period of 2014, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
An agency official estimated that about 300 people had died at sea in the first quarter of this year as a result of starvation, dehydration and abuse by boat crews.