Bangladesh/UNITED NATIONS, Sept 29 : More than 60 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar are believed to have drowned when their boat capsized, the latest victims in what the United Nations says is the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency.
The refugees drowned in heavy seas off Bangladesh late on Thursday, part of a new surge of people fleeing a Myanmar military campaign that began on Aug.
25 and has triggered an exodus of some 502,000 people.
International anger over the crisis is growing. (AGENCIES)
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