On Thursday, Indonesian volunteers discovered 69 Rohingya people floating on a dirty ship off the coast of Aceh, leaving them sunburned and exhausted.
The government’s search and rescue organization says nine children, 18 people and 42 males were saved. Around 80 people are feared to have been swept aside, or dying. One veteran claimed that some members of the group had spent a month at sea in a wooden vessel.
A local fish vehicle had come to the team’s save a day earlier. However, according to reports, the migrants presumably attempted to climb aboard in a panic before flipping both boats. The victims were stranded on the deck of the following boat for more than a day while barren.
Hundreds of Rohingya make the dangerous sea voyage to Malaysia or Indonesia each year. They are escaping oppression in Bangladesh’s packed refugee camps and Myanmar.