A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim migrants capsizes off Indonesia's coast

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast.

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday. Local fishermen rescued six refugees who said more people were still on the boat.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

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The survivors, four women and two men, were moved to a temporary shelter in the Samatiga sub-district. The fishermen and the survivors told The Associated Press the boat capsized about 16 miles (25 Kilometers) from the coastline of Kuala Bubon Beach in Aceh province.

Amiruddin, a tribal fishing community leader in Aceh Barat district, said the survivors indicated that the boat was sailing east when it started leaking and then strong currents pushed it toward the west of Aceh. They also told the locals that several women and children were still trying to survive on the capsized craft.

About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh to escape the brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces in their homeland of Myanmar.

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