GENEVA: The United Nations refugee agency on Monday referred to as for the immediate rescue of a set of Rohingya refugees who had been adrift of their boat inside the Andaman Sea with out food or water, lots of whom have been ill and tormented by severe dehydration.

The organisation said it understood a few passengers had died, with fatalities growing over the weekend on a boat it stated had left the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh about 10 days in the past and had experienced engine failure.

“In the absence of particular records as to the refugees’ area, we've got alerted the government of the applicable maritime states of these reports and appealed for his or her swift assistance,” the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated in a statement.

“Immediate action is wanted to store lives and save you in addition tragedy,” it stated, providing to support governments via imparting humanitarian assist and quarantine measures to the ones rescued.

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A senior Indian Coast Guard respectable advised Reuters the boat has been tracked and became pronounced to be secure but did not but realize the circumstance of these aboard.

The Rohingya are a Muslim minority that has suffered persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and many have fled in rickety boats, encountering regularly perilous journeys inside the wish of attaining Malaysia and Indonesia.

Hundreds of lots of Rohingya fled a lethal crackdown with the aid of Myanmar’s safety forces in 2017 and poured into neighbouring Bangladesh, wherein approximately one million stay in bad conditions in sprawling refugee camps, unable to paintings or leave with out authorities permission.