Overview
- Malaysian and Thai teams have recovered 32 bodies and rescued 14 people after a vessel carrying about 70 migrants capsized near Tarutao and Langkawi.
- Malaysia’s home minister said the priority is to find anyone still alive, with at least 12 vessels scouring roughly 250 square nautical miles in rough conditions.
- Officials say the boat split from a larger group of roughly 300 people that departed Buthidaung in Myanmar, and a second vessel reported by police remains unaccounted for.
- Survivors include 18-year-old Iman Shorif, found days after the sinking, and others rescued by local fishers, with victims identified as predominantly Rohingya.
- UNHCR and IOM call for stronger regional search-and-rescue and safe disembarkation, as Malaysian police open immigration investigations into those rescued.