Drifting Rohingya refugee boat reaches Indonesia

Dozens of Rohingya refugees - each men - person drifted connected to a formation successful occidental Indonesia successful a woody vessel with a breached engine, section officials say.

They are described arsenic bare and anemic aft spending up to a period astatine sea. At slightest 3 men were taken to hospital.

The Rohingya are a persecuted taste number successful their archetypal location successful Myanmar (Burma).

The woody vessel with 57 men connected committee landed connected Sunday greeting successful Aceh province, section constabulary spokesperson Winardy told AFP quality agency.

"The vessel had a breached motor and it was carried by the upwind to a enactment successful Ladong Village successful Aceh Besar [district]," the spokesperson said.

"They said they person been drifting astatine oversea for a month."

A section migration authoritative told AFP the refugees would beryllium temporarily placed astatine a authorities facility.

Other media reports accidental 58 men arrived successful Aceh.

It was not instantly known wherever the migrants had sailed from.

Last week, the UN urged countries astir the Andaman Sea successful South East Asia to assistance a tiny sportfishing vessel carrying astatine slightest 150 Rohingya refugees which had been drifting without powerfulness for 2 weeks aft leaving Bangladesh.

People connected the vessel who were contacted via outer telephone said astatine the clip that a fig of passengers, including children, had already died. They said that nutrient and h2o supplies had tally out.

The UN connected Sunday expressed fearfulness that the sportfishing vessel mightiness person sunk.

Many Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh successful 2017 to flight a run of genocide launched by Myanmar's military.

In caller months, they person been trying to flight from overcrowded exile camps successful confederate Bangladesh by taking high-risk oversea journeys astatine this clip of year, aft the monsoon successful the portion has passed.

Their numbers person grown due to the fact that of deteriorating conditions successful the camps, portion much Rohingya who are inactive successful Myanmar are besides trying to permission pursuing the subject coup determination past year.

At slightest 5 boats are known to person near successful the past 2 months.