Rescue Calls for Stranded Boat Holding 200 Rohingya Refugees

Noor Habi, a resident of a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, said her 23-year-old daughter Munuwara Begum was on the stranded boat and had spoken to her sister by walkie talkie.

"We are in danger. Please save us," her daughter Begum said, according to an audio clip of the call.

"There is no food and water with us and there is no one to save us from this drowning boat."

The Indonesian navy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Dec. 8, more than 150 Rohingya were rescued near the Thai coast from a waterlogged boat on its way to Indonesia from a refugee camp in Bangladesh, according to the Myanmar junta.

Source: Agence France-Presse