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At least seven people have died after a boat carrying undocumented migrants sank near the border between Thailand and Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thirteen people have been rescued but hundreds are missing – they were among a group of 300 people, most of whom are Rohingyas, who left Myanmar’s impoverished Rakhine state two weeks ago on a larger vessel before splitting onto small boats, said a Malaysian maritime official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The capsized vessel is believed to have gone down near the resort island of Langkawi, the Malaysian Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rescue efforts have entered a second day, with the search area expanded from 170 to 256 square nautical miles. Malaysia’s maritime authority expects the search to last seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The body found in the water on Sunday was that of a Rohingya woman, Malaysia’s state-owned news agency Bernama reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the 13 rescued, 11 are Rohingyas and two are Bangladeshis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sunken boat was carrying about 70 people, while the status of the boats carrying the remaining migrants are “unclear”, Malaysian authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Rohingyas, who are primarily Muslim, are one of the many ethnic minorities in the predominantly Buddhist country, but they are denied citizenship by the government of Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since August 2017, a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s army sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas fleeing across the border into Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conflict and poor living conditions in Bangladesh however have also prompted some Rohingyas to make precarious journeys on overcrowded vessels to Malaysia, a Muslim country which some envision to be a safe haven in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials say many of them would have each paid more than $3,000 (\u00a32,300) for these passages by sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These boats are often small and cramped, lacking in basic facilities like water and sanitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And they do not always make it to Malaysia. Some die while being stranded at sea, while others are sometimes detained or deported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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