(21 Mar 2024)
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Waters off West Aceh, Indonesia - 21 March 2024
1. STILLS of Rohingya refugees stand on their capsized boat before being rescued
2. STILLS of Rohingya refugees being rescued from capsized boat
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Waters off West Aceh - 21 March 2024
3. Various of Rohingya refugees onboard ship after being rescued from capsized boat ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety.
An AP photographer aboard the rescue ship said 10 people had been taken aboard local fishing boats and another 59 were being saved by the Indonesian craft.
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.
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.
It was also uncertain was whether all managed to cling to the capsized craft overnight or whether some had drowned.
Indonesia’s search and rescue team left Banda Aceh city on Wednesday evening, many hours after the capsizing, and initially had difficulty locating the boat in the choppy waters off the coast.
It finally found the boat and the survivors about midday on Thursday.
About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh to escape the brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces in their homeland of Myanmar.
Thousands have been trying to flee overcrowded camps in Bangladesh to neighboring countries.
AP video shot by Reza Saifullah
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