The Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions, travelling aboard rickety boats often operated by trafficking networks. Image used for representational purposes only.
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Last year was the deadliest on record for Rohingya refugees fleeing by sea, with deaths continuing to soar in 2026, the UN said Friday (April 17, 2026), after hundreds were lost in a shipwreck earlier this month.
“In 2025, nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal,” the United Nations refugee agency’s spokesman Babar Baloch told a press briefing in Geneva.
Published – April 17, 2026 05:17 pm IST
