130 missing in Rohingya boat sinking: Bangladesh

• 31/10/2012 - 13:17
  

  130 missing in Rohingya boat sinking: Bangladesh

   

  
  

  31 Oct 2012
  DHAKA (AFP) About 130 passengers are missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh police and a Rohingya advocacy group on Wednesday.
  Mohammad Farhad, police inspector of Teknaf on the southeast tip of Bangladesh, told AFP that one of six survivors from the sinking reported that the boat had about 130 passengers on board.
  
  

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