[ad_1] <br><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/c755a2dd-f0b3-43ed-aba2-6dcf86aca556/AP24081201070168.jpg" /><figcaption>10 people had been taken aboard local fishing boats and another 59 were being saved by the Indonesian craft.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/db5f8e65-2810-4329-af82-118e6c934ee7/AP24081197135347.jpg" /><figcaption>Rohingya refugees rescued from their capsized boat sit in a National Search and Rescue Agency boat in the waters off West Aceh, Indonesia.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/9c22daea-b906-4b8f-8fd1-1a625dd1762b/AP24081194644441.jpg" /><figcaption>Men, women and children, weak and soaked from the night’s rain, wept as the rescue operation got underway and people were taken aboard a rubber dinghy to the rescue boat.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/4f762e92-6712-4001-8d7c-bf35b5e8a30b/AP24081210651013.jpg" /><figcaption>It was unclear how many refugees were aboard the small craft when it capsized off of Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday, with six survivors initially rescued by local fishermen estimating between 60 and 100 people.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/752dbc13-3ed9-48ab-91ee-b6c84f795422/AP24081241030879.jpg" /><figcaption>It was unclear whether all managed to cling to the capsized craft overnight or whether some had drowned.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/1b9ffbfc-abb7-4290-bfbc-fe38d6c1fd06/AP24081240959570.jpg" /><figcaption>About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh to escape the brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces in their homeland of Myanmar.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/ca921649-242a-4f82-a56e-cda914b1496d/AP24080378619267.jpg" /><figcaption>Thousands have been trying to flee overcrowded camps in Bangladesh to neighboring countries with Indonesia seeing a spike in refugee numbers since November which prompted it to call on the international community for help. </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.assettype.com/newindianexpress/2024-03/825d0c3b-495f-4d77-b7a8-a5f825730b77/AP24081170307402.jpg" /><figcaption>Members of the National Search and Rescue Agency scan the horizon during the search for a boat carrying Rohingya refugees reportedly capsized in the waters off West Aceh, Indonesia.</figcaption></figure> <br>[ad_2] <br><a href="https://www.newindianexpress.com/galleries/world/2024/Mar/21/in-pics-boat-carrying-rohingya-muslim-refugees-capsizes-off-indonesias-coast">Source link </a>