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Families search for hundreds, including Bangladeshis, missing after boat sinks in Andaman Sea

Families were frantically searching for news of their relatives on Wednesday after a boat carrying about 280 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants capsized in the Andaman Sea earlier this month. The boat, which left the southern Bangladeshi port of Teknaf on 4 April and was on its way to Malaysia, sank due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowding, according to the United Nations. Bangladeshi authorities said nine people had been rescued. One survivor told AFP the boat sank nearly 10 d...

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Teknaf, Coxs Bazar, Chittagong
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Families search for hundreds, including Bangladeshis, missing after boat sinks in Andaman Sea Families were frantically searching for news of their relatives on Wednesday after a boat carrying about 280 Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants capsized in the Andaman Sea earlier this month. The boat, which left the southern Bangladeshi port of Teknaf on 4 April and was on its way to Malaysia, sank due to heavy winds, rough seas and overcrowding, according to the United Nations. Bangladeshi authorities said nine people had been rescued. One survivor told AFP the boat sank nearly 10 days Source: Prothom Alo English https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/y40fiiovzi

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