Rohingya crisis: 'About 60 dead' in boat capsize

About 60 humans at the moment are believed to have died while a ship carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized off Bangladesh, the UN says.
The boat overturned in rough seas overdue on Thursday.
A UN spokesman said 23 human beings were now confirmed dead and forty greater have been "lacking and presumed drowned".
Dozens of Rohingya have already died looking to go into Bangladesh amid a navy crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine kingdom.
Violence erupted in Rakhine on 25 August when Rohingya militants attacked protection posts, triggering a army crackdown.
more than half of one million Rohingya - a mostly Muslim minority who are broadly disliked in Myanmar and denied citizenship - have fled to Bangladesh seeing that then.
those who've fled accuse Myanmar's navy, subsidized with the aid of Buddhist mobs, of using a brutal campaign of killings and village burnings to try and drive them out. The military rejects the allegations, saying it is concentrated on Rohingya militants.
The Rohingya have been making their manner to Bangladesh throughout the Naf river that paperwork the border or up the coast, frequently on rickety boats.
global corporation for Migration spokesman Joel Millman said the boat that capsized become wearing about eighty human beings, in line with survivors.
"Survivors defined being at sea all night, having no meals," he stated.
numerous children had been some of the lifeless. One survivor informed Reuters news business enterprise that his wife,  daughters and a grandson had died. He stated that they had decided to leave Rakhine after armed Buddhists took their livestock and food.



Myanmar's government has rejected remarks through UN officers that it's far engaged in ethnic cleaning in Rakhine.
however on Thursday US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley referred to as on nations presently presenting weapons to Myanmar's authorities to forestall doing so till "sufficient duty measures" have been in place.
"the ones who've been accused of committing abuses should be removed from command obligations straight away and prosecuted for wrongdoing," she stated.
Her feedback got here after UN Secretary standard Antonio Guterres told the general meeting that violence in Myanmar had spiralled into "a humanitarian and human rights nightmare".
He also known as for higher get entry to to warfare-hit northern Rakhine - some thing that's currently tightly restricted.
UN officials were because of make their first go to there since the conflict erupted on Thursday on a central authority-run experience, but it became cancelled.