Rohingya Muslims who survived 40 days on a boat across the Indian Ocean to end up in Indonesia recount tales of hunger and desperation, saying more than 20 of them died en route Was.
A boat carrying 174 Rohingya arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Sumatra island on Monday, local disaster agency officials said, most of them dehydrated, exhausted and in need of urgent medical care.
One of the survivors, Shafiq Rahman, said 200 people had traveled on a small boat from Bangladesh in an attempt to reach Muslim-majority Indonesia, and 26 of them had died at sea.
“We floated in the sea for 40 days,” he said, adding that after 10 days the food supply ran low and soon the rickety boat took a leak.
“By the grace of Allah, we reached this place safe and sound,” he said at a temporary shelter in Pidi district. piece of cardboard