AFP – A small boat packed with refugees fleeing war-torn Myanmar sunk while crossing a river to Bangladesh on Tuesday, with at least 10 drowning, including young children, a local councillor said.
The government administrator of Bangladesh’s Teknaf border town Adnan Chowdhury said the boat was carrying about 29 Rohingya people from Myanmar. “So far we’ve recovered 10 bodies, they are all Rohingya,” a councillor in Teknaf, Rashid Mia, told AFP. “Several people swam ashore.” But several people were missing, Mia added.
Police said the group had fled their villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and the small craft sank in the Naf river.
