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Dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued after night on hull of capsized boat | AP News

Dozens of Rohingya refugees rescued after night on hull of capsized boat | AP News

An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety. Men, women and children, weak and soaked from the night’s rain, wept as the rescue operation got underway and people were taken aboard a rubber dinghy to the rescue boat. (Mar. 21) (AP video: Reza Saifullah)

An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety. Men, women and children, weak and soaked from the night’s rain, wept as the rescue operation got underway and people were taken aboard a rubber dinghy to the rescue boat. (Mar. 21) (AP video: Reza Saifullah)