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10:44, 09-Oct-2017
Death toll rises to 23 as Rohingya refugee boat sinks off Bangladesh
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Rescue workers have retrieved nine more bodies after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees capsized near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Sunday night, bringing the death toll to 23.
The boat, which was reportedly overloaded with about 100 people including children, was en route to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine State when it sank in the mouth of the Naf river.
Students of a local madrasa watch from inside their classroom as bodies of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar killed when their boat capsized on the way to Bangladesh, are brought to their school in Shah Porir Dwip, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, October 9, 2017. /Reuters Photo
Students of a local madrasa watch from inside their classroom as bodies of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar killed when their boat capsized on the way to Bangladesh, are brought to their school in Shah Porir Dwip, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, October 9, 2017. /Reuters Photo
More than half of the victims were children and 15 survivors were saved by border guards, but scores more remain missing.
About 519,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since August 25, when attacks by a group of Rohingya insurgents on security posts in Rakhine sparked a ferocious military response.
The bodies of 132 Rohingyas and a Bangladeshi boat man were recovered from the Naf River since August 29 in at least 25 boat capsizal incidents.
Source(s): AFP
,Xinhua News Agency