Twenty migrants from Bangladesh and Burma have been found dead from starvation and dehydration on a wooden trawler adrift in the Bay of Bengal. Sri Lanka’s navy, which found them, said 71 survivors were rescued from the crowded boat, which had been drifting for two weeks after its engine broke.
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about 18 years ago
S Lanka finds boat migrants dead
Twenty migrants from Bangladesh and Burma have been found dead from starvation and dehydration on a wooden trawler adrift in the Bay of Bengal. Sri Lanka’s navy, which found them, said 71 survivors were rescued from the crowded boat, which had been drifting for two weeks after its engine broke.
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