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Boat Carrying Rohingya Refugees Capsizes Off Bangladesh

At least 12 people are dead and 30 others missing, many of them children. Meanwhile, the situation in refugee camps in Bangladesh grows dire.
Rohingya children wait for food handouts at Thangkhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Thursday. / Zakir Hossain Chowdhury / Shutterstock.com

At least a dozen people are dead after an overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized off the coast of Bangladesh.

Michael Sullivan, reporting, says that the majority of the dead are children and at least 30 other people are still missing.

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