Overview
- Rescuers recovered at least 21 bodies and pulled 13 people alive from the water after a small boat carrying roughly 70 capsized over the weekend.
- Malaysian and Thai police, coastguard and naval units expanded the search area between Langkawi and Ko Tarutao and deployed ships and an aircraft.
- Officials say the passengers had been transferred from a larger mothership with about 300 people, with roughly 230 others still unlocated.
- The 13 survivors were detained by Malaysian authorities, underscoring the lack of formal refugee recognition for Rohingya in the country.
- Thai officials reported finding refugee identity documents on two recovered children linked to camps in Bangladesh, and UNHCR notes over 5,100 Rohingya sea departures this year with nearly 600 dead or missing.