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A boat carrying 185 Rohingya refugees landed off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Sunday, a local disaster agency official said, hundreds fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh late last year. Ridwan Jamil, head of the Aceh Besar disaster agency, said more than half of those who arrived as of 2:30 p.m. […]
Sfax’s coastline has become a major departure point for people fleeing poverty in Africa and the Middle East for better life opportunities in Europe. In recent months, hundreds of people have drowned off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted crossings from Tunisia and Libya towards Italy. In light of an […]
At least 180 ethnic Rohingyas stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead after their rickety boat is believed to have sunk this month, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said. Citing unconfirmed reports, the agency said the unseaworthy boat may have sunk after missing at sea. “Relatives have lost contact,” […]
Two Myanmar Rohingya activist groups said at least 100 ethnic Rohingyas are stranded in a boat off India’s Andaman Islands and 16-20 may have died of thirst, hunger or drowning. Every year many Rohingya, members of a Muslim minority, risk their lives to escape violence in Myanmar and filth in Bangladesh refugee camps. Many try […]
‘Tragic loss’ Ambulances and emergency workers gathered along the quay in Dover. Sky News said some people had been transferred to a hospital in Ashford, Kent, but it was not known whether they were survivors or had a fatality. Speaking in Parliament, Sunak expressed grief over the accident. Sunak said, “I am sure the whole […]
At least eleven people were killed when an engine boat was capsized in Surma river in Chhatak Upazila of Sunamganj district. The boat was jam packed; about one hundred labors and their children were coming back to home from a stone quarry. It was Monday night; fire broke out from a kerosene stove and quickly […]
