![]() ‘There are many babies, little children, please protect them, they are very hungry because they didn’t get anything,’ said Alam, 23. Three people, including Alam, gave different passenger breakdowns but all said mostly women and children were on board. Mukhtaruddin estimated there were ‘between 250 and 260’ refugees on the boat or the beach. Rohingya refugee Manzur Alam told AFP the boat had left Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh-home to almost a million Rohingya refugees - 20 days ago with 249 people on board. ![]() The rest of Thursday’s arrivals were still waiting on the boat about 100 metres (110 yards) from the beach, Mukhtaruddin said. The passengers, however, were insistent after almost three weeks at sea.Īfter climbing down ropes to swim to shore and remonstrate with the Acehnese, one Rohingya man covered in plasters lay on the sand barefoot, shirtless, appearing almost lifeless. The local Acehnese delivered food to the boat in the hope those on board would decide to move on, according to Mukhtaruddin, village head of Pulo Pineung Meunasah. Young men on board held their arms out in exasperation as the open-topped boat listed to one side through overcrowding.
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