(ANSA) - KUALA LUMPUR, JULY 26 - At least 24 missing and one survivor: this is a first report of a shipwreck of a boat loaded with Rohingya refugees, probably fled from Burma, which took place today off the coast of Malaysia.
According to the country's Coast Guard, the survivor - Nor Hossain - was arrested after swimming to the island of Langkawi.
A rescue operation has been launched with two boats and two Coast Guard planes, but no other survivors or corpses have been found so far.
(HANDLE).
Malaysia: 25 Rohingya refugees, one survivor, shipwrecked
2020-07-26T11:22:12.499Z
At least 24 missing and only one survivor: this is a first report of a shipwreck of a boat loaded with Rohingya refugees, probably fled from Burma, which took place today off the coast of Malaysia. (HANDLE)