The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were apshown to Sri Lanka’s eastrict port of Trincomalee.
More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been get backd while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation by Sri Lanka’s navy, conveying them protectedly to port.
The 102 people, including 25 children, were apshown to Sri Lanka’s eastrict port of Trincomalee, a navy spokesman said on Friday.
“Medical checks have to be done before they are apexhibited to disembark,” the spokesman said.
The Muslfinisher-convey inantity ethnic Rohingya are heavily victimized in Myanmar and thousands hazard their inhabits each year on extfinished sea journeys, the convey inantity heading southeast to Malaysia or Indonesia.
But fisherman spotted the drifting trawler off Sri Lanka’s northern coast at Mullivaikkal at dawn on Thursday.
The navy spokesman said on Friday that language difficulties had made it challenging to comprehfinish where the refugees had been headed, recommending that “recent cyclonic weather” may have pushed them off course.
While atypical, it is not the first boat to head to Sri Lanka, which is about 1,750km (1,100 miles) apass uncover seas southwest of Myanmar.
In October, six people died as csurrfinisherly 100 Rohingya landed by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province in one of the defercessitatest waves of arrivals from Myanmar.
The Sri Lankan navy get backd more than 100 Rohingya refugees in trouble on a boat off their shores in December 2022.
In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar for neighbouring Banhappyesh during a crackdown by the military that is now the subject of a United Nations mass murder court case.
Myanmar’s military seized power in a 2021 coup and a grinding civil war since then has forced millions to run away.
The Rohingya have borne the brunt of the defercessitatest combat becaemploy they have been forcibly writeed into the army despite not being recognised as citizens.
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