130 missing in Rohingya boat sinking: Bangladesh

October 31 2012 14:25:34

130 missing in Rohingya boat sinking: Bangladesh

DHAKA - Agence France Presse

REUTERS photo

About 130 passengers are missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh police and a Rohingya advocacy group today.

Mohammad Farhad, police inspector of Teknaf on the southeast tip of Bangladesh, told AFP that one of six survivors from the sinking reported that the boat had about 130 passengers on board.

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