Six dead as boat carrying Rohingya fleeing Myanmar arrives in Indonesia
Al Jazeera
Ninety-six Rohingya refugees, including seven children, are stranded on Sumatra island after escaping on a rickety boat.
Six people have died as nearly 100 Rohingya landed by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province in the latest wave of arrivals from Myanmar in recent days.
Miftach Tjut Adek, chief of a local fishing community, told the Reuters news agency on Thursday that 96 people, including seven children, were still at a beach in the eastern part of Aceh on Sumatra island.
“There is no solution yet. They are still at the beach,” Miftach said.
Two bodies were found on the shore and four floating in the sea, said Saiful Anwar, a village official in East Aceh.
“According to information from residents, these people were stranded at around 4am [21:00 GMT],” Saiful told the AFP news agency.
