Thai authorities rescued 51 Rohingya people, including two children, in southern Satun province on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday local fishermen rescued 10 Rohingya from the sea in Satun’s La-ngu district and the next day another 41 were found on an island in Thung Wa district.
“Local fishermen found the 10 exhausted men clinging to a polystyrene foam,” La-ngu district Police superintendent Colonel Sitthipong Husrangsi said this by adding more that they (rescued Rohingya) have been placed at a temporary shelter pending further investigation.
“The men said their overloaded boat that was bound for Indonesia was hit by a storm forcing them to abandon the vessel. They were in the sea for four days before being rescued by local fishermen,” said the statement.
Having information from survivors that more Rohingya had been pulled onto a beach nearby, the Thai authorities extended their search and found 41 more Rohingya, including two young boys, on an island off the coast of Thung Wa district. All of them were found in a hungry and dehydrated state,” according to the statement.
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