Members of the persecuted minority group from Myanmar set off in search of a better life weeks ago, but news of their boats sinking only emerged recently. More than 500 are feared dead.
A boat carrying a group of Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province last year. Each year, thousands of Rohingya refugees attempt to reach Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand on overcrowded, unseaworthy boats.
Huge flames tore out of the entrance to the venue, which one investigator said had used inappropriate material for soundproofing. More than two dozen people died.
A monk being treated at a hospital in northeastern Thailand, in a photo released by the Ruamjai Mukdahan Rescue Foundation. A truck struck his group while they were on a pilgrimage.
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