Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead, missing in shipwrecks in 2025: UN

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The Rohingya undertake perilous oversea journeys each twelvemonth successful hunt of amended surviving conditions, travelling aboard rickety boats often operated by trafficking networks. Image utilized for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: AP

Last twelvemonth was the deadliest connected grounds for Rohingya refugees fleeing by sea, with deaths continuing to soar successful 2026, the UN said Friday (April 17, 2026), aft hundreds were mislaid successful a shipwreck earlier this month.

"In 2025, astir 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing oregon dormant successful the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal," the United Nations exile agency's spokesperson Babar Baloch told a property briefing successful Geneva.

Published - April 17, 2026 05:17 p.m. IST

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