A FOUND DRIFTING WITH MIGRANTS..........................BREAKING NEWS
WOODEN boat with nearly 200 Burmese migrants on board has been found drifting off Indonesia's Sumatra island, a local navy official says.
The migrants, from Burma's minority Muslim Rohingya community, told their rescuers they had been adrift for three weeks after being towed out to sea and abandoned by Thai security forces, navy lieutenant Tedi said.The migrants said 20 people had died at sea during their journey to Sumatra. "Fishermen found a wooden boat without an engine drifting in the sea with 198 Myanmar (Burmese) migrants. They said Thai authorities towed them out to sea and set them adrift," Tedi said.
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