A U.N. agency warned that the possible sinking of a boat with 180 Rohingya Muslims on board in recent weeks might make 2022 one of the community’s worst years at sea in almost a decade as refugees attempt to flee the hopeless conditions in Bangladeshi camps.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concern that a boat with 180 people on board may have vanished after leaving port at the end of November and that all 180 are likely dead.
Before losing communication, the UNHCR claimed that the ship may have begun to break in early December.
Another boat carrying 174 Rohingya reached Indonesia, with all of them in need of urgent medical care. It is reported that 200 people had set sail from Bangladesh and 26 died at sea.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya from Myanmar have fled their nation after its military carried out a brutal campaign in 2017, and now around one million of them reside in overcrowded facilities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Source: Reuters, NDTV
