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Agence France-Presse

At least 12 people died and scores were missing Monday after a boat packed with Rohingya refugees – many of them children – capsized, the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
Coastguard and border guard officials said the boat was overloaded with about 100 people when it sank late Sunday in the mouth of the Naf river that separates Myanmar from Bangladesh.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official Abdul Jalil said 12 bodies had been recovered after an all-night rescue operation, saying “they include 10 children, an elderly woman and a man”.
Area coastguard commander Alauddin Nayan said the boat capsized near the coastal village of Galachar with nearly 100 people on board.
He said some 40 people in the boat were adult Rohingya Muslims fleeing their villages in Rakhine.
“The rest were children,” he said.
Border guard boats have rescued 13 Rohingya including three women and two children after scouring the estuary of the Naf river, Jalil said.


Since the boat capsized near the Myanmar side of the border, Jalil said many may have swum to the Rakhine coast.
The coastguard said the boat sank at around 10:00pm.
Local media quoted a survivor as saying the vessel capsized due to high waves and bad weather.
Nearly 520,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Rakhine state for Bangladesh since late August, many walking for days through thick jungle before making the perilous boat journey across the Naf river.


Around 150 Rohingya, many of them children, have drowned while trying to reach Bangladesh in small, rickety fishing boats that coastguards say are woefully inadequate for the rough seas.
Last week more than 60 Rohingya refugees are feared to have died after a boat carrying them from Myanmar capsized in rough weather in the Bay of Bengal just off the Bangladesh coast.
The bodies of 23 people were retrieved, but the death toll was expected to surge, with many of the dead likely to be young children too weak to swim through the churning water.

The refugee crisis erupted after Rohingya militant raids on Myanmar police posts on August 25 prompted a brutal military backlash.
The United Nations has said the army campaign could amount to “ethnic cleansing” while Myanmar military leaders have blamed the unrest on the Rohingya.
Bangladesh has made the journey even more difficult with a clampdown on boats running refugees across the Naf river.
Authorities have destroyed at least 30 wooden fishing vessels whose captains are accused of smuggling Rohingya and illegal drugs into the country.
Gangs of boat owners, crew and fishermen have been charging the fleeing Rohingya upwards of US$250 for the two-hour journey that normally costs no more than US$5.


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A hand of one of Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who were killed when their boat capsized on the way to Bangladesh, is seen under the plastic sheeting used to cover bodies of victims brought to a local Islamic school in Shah Porir Dwip, in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. Photo: Reuters

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH Local residents gather around bodies of Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who were killed when their boat capsized on the way to Bangladesh, in Shah Porir Dwip, in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj TEMPLATE OUT

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Head of the United Nations humanitarian office Mark Lowcock has said the lack of access granted by Myanmar's government to Rakhine state, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence, is ‘unacceptable’. Photo: AFP

TOPSHOT - Bangladeshi men help Rohingya Muslim refugees to disembark from a boat on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf on September 30, 2017. More than 2,000 Rohingya have massed along Myanmar's coast this week after trekking from inland villages in Rakhine state to join the refugee exodus to Bangladesh, state media reported September 30. They follow more than half a million fellow Rohingya who have emptied out of northern Rakhine in a single month, fleeing an army crackdown and communal violence the UN says amounts to "ethnic cleansing". / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

TOPSHOT - Rohingya Muslim refugees walk on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf on September 30, 2017. More than 2,000 Rohingya have massed along Myanmar's coast this week after trekking from inland villages in Rakhine state to join the refugee exodus to Bangladesh, state media reported September 30. They follow more than half a million fellow Rohingya who have emptied out of northern Rakhine in a single month, fleeing an army crackdown and communal violence the UN says amounts to "ethnic cleansing". / AFP PHOTO / Emrul KAMAL

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Rohingya Muslim refugees ride on the back of a truck which head towards Nayapara refugee camp after crossing the border from Myanmar, in Teknaf on October 3, 2017. Bangladesh has strongly denied the presence of Rohingya militants among the more than 800,000 refugees living in displacement camps -- one of the largest such settlements anywhere in the world -- along its border with Myanmar. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

epa06242071 Rohingya refugees queue as they wait for relief near a camp at Tengkhal, Ukhiya, Coxsbazar, Bangladesh, 03 October 2017. According to UNHCR, more than 500 thousand Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar from violence over the last few weeks, most trying to cross the border and reach Bangladesh. International organizations have reported claims of human rights violations and summary executions allegedly carried out by the Myanmar army. Minister for the Office of the State Counsellor of Myanmar Kyaw Tint Swe visited Bangladesh and agreed to take back the Rohingyas after mutual understanding with Bangladesh government. EPA-EFE/ABIR ABDULLAH

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TOPSHOT - In this photograph taken on September 7, 2017, unidentified men carry knives and slingshots as they walk past a burning house in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state in northern Myanmar. The men were seen by journalists walking past the burning structure during a Myanmar government sponsored trip for media to the region. In the last two weeks alone 164,000 mostly Rohingya civilians have fled to Bangladesh, overwhelming refugee camps that were already bursting at the seams and scores more have died trying to flee the fighting in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where witnesses say entire villages have been burned since Rohingya militants launched a series of coordinated attacks on August 25, prompting a military-led crackdown. / AFP PHOTO / STR

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Coastguard and border guard officials said the boat was overloaded with about 100 people when it sank in the mouth of the Naf river that separates Myanmar from Bangladesh
