A boat carrying more than 250 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants sank after departing from Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar for Malaysia, a police official said Tuesday.
The report has come to light after a Bangladeshi vessel rescued nine people from the Indian Ocean on April 9 and handed them to Bangladeshi police, Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf police station Saiful Islam told Anadolu Agency (AA).
However, he did not provide the exact number of those on the boat, saying they were "many."
Of the nine rescued, six are alleged traffickers, and they have been sent to jail, he added.
A case has been filed with the Teknaf Model Police Station in this regard.
