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    UN agencies fear about 70 missing or dead from capsized Rohingya refugee boat

    by Reza Saifullah and Edna Tarigan Mar 22, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead from a boat that made a grueling sea voyage from Bangladesh and sank off Indonesia’s coast this week with 75 survivors, U.N. agencies said.

    A statement issued jointly by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or , and the International Office for Migration, or IOM, said they were “extremely concerned about the scale of potential loss of life," saying that

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