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October 10, 2017

At Least 23 Rohingya Refugees Die as Boat Capsizes
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In Bangladesh, at least 23 people are dead, and dozens more are missing,
after a boat overloaded with desperate Rohingya refugees capsized off
the coast near the country's border with Burma. The migrants were
attempting to join more than half a million Rohingya refugees who have
fled an ethnic cleansing campaign backed by Burma's military. This is
Sayed Hossain, one of the survivors.

Sayed Hossain: "We were seven-my three kids, my wife, my father-in-law,
my elderly mother and me. Among them, I alone survived. We all faced so
much difficulty searching for food and surviving. They killed people and
burnt down the villages and houses. We came here to save our lives."

The latest deaths came as drone footage released by the Disasters
Emergency Committee showed the scale of the Rohingya refugee crisis. The
video shows a massive, sprawling camp of makeshift tents and shacks in
Bangladesh stretching to the horizon.


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