Rohingya boat capsizes in Bay of Bengal; at least 16 dead

DHAKA, Bangladesh — An overcrowded boat carrying about 125 Rohingyarefugeesfrom Bangladeshi camps sank early Tuesday in the Bay of Bengal, leaving after all 16 ineffective, Bangladeshi officials acknowledged Tuesday.

The waft guard, navy divers and totally different rescuers recovered the our bodies of 14 ladies, one diminutive one and a person after the wood boat capsized off St. Martin’s Island, the highest elected legit on the island told The Associated Press.

Noor Ahmed told AP by phone from the scene that some 62refugeeson the boat survived. They had been wooed by traffickers to acquire on the boat from various aspects because it used to be heading for Malaysia, he acknowledged.

Iqbal Hossain, extra police superintendent in Cox’s Bazar, acknowledged by phone the overcrowding of the boat had precipitated it to capsize and that it’ll respect been carrying extra cargo as successfully.

Hossain acknowledged the our bodies had been sent to nearby Shah Porir island and the rescue operation used to be persevering with. However he would no longer give an accurate resolve about what number of composed remained missing.

Traffickers on the total lure refugees by promising the next life in a foreign nation. Many past makes an are trying to tear illegally by boats had been thwarted by waft guards.

Extra than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar to fly a harsh crackdown by Myanmar’s protection force since August 2017. Myanmar has lengthy claimed the Rohingya are “Bengali” migrants from Bangladesh, although their families respect lived in the nation for generations. Nearly all respect been denied citizenship since 1982, successfully rendering them stateless.