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UN issues call to rescue hundreds of Rohingya adrift at sea
3 years agoRohingya refugees queue with their belongings at a beach in the Sabang island of Aceh province, Indonesia on November 22, 2023, as they are relocated by Indonesian authorities. - More than 200 Rohingya refugees were relocated from the beaches of a remote Indonesian island on November 22, after weeks adrift on a wooden boat, as authorities rejected locals' efforts to push the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority back to sea. (Photo by Chaideer MAHYUDDIN / AFP)
The United Nations called Saturday for nations to rescue hundreds of Rohingya it said were trapped onboard two unseaworthy vessels adrift in the Andaman Sea.