A group of nearly 60 hungry and weak men are found in Aceh province after many days at sea.
Dozens of Rohingya refugees - all men - have drifted on to a beach in western Indonesia in a wooden boat with a broken engine, local officials say.
They are described as hungry and weak after spending up to a month at sea. At least three men were taken to hospital.a group of at least 150 Rohingya who became stranded at sea weeks ago.The wooden boat with 57 men on board landed on Sunday morning in Aceh province, local police spokesman Winardy told AFP news agency.
"The boat had a broken engine and it was carried by the wind to a shore in Ladong Village in Aceh Besar [district]," the spokesman said.A local immigration official told AFP the refugees would be temporarily placed at a government facility.It was not immediately known where the migrants had sailed from.The boat that carried the refugees had a broken engine, Indonesian officials say
Last week, the UN urged countries around the Andaman Sea in South East Asia to assist a small fishing boat carrying at least 150 Rohingya refugees which had been drifting without power for two weeks after leaving Bangladesh. People on the boat who were contacted via satellite phone said at the time that a number of passengers, including children, had already died. They said that food and water supplies had run out.
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