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11 Bodies Recovered As Boat Sinks Off Myanmar Coast

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Monday, October 21, 2024 at 03:42 PM

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11 Bodies Recovered As Boat Sinks Off Myanmar Coast

Rescuers have recovered eleven bodies after an overloaded boat carrying around 30 people sank in the Andaman Sea off Myanmar’s southern coast.

Authorities in Myanmar on Monday informed that the rest of the passengers are still missing.

“We found 10 bodies last night and one this morning,” said a monk from Kyauk Kar village in the southern Tanintharyi region, from where the boat had left Sunday evening.

According to a Monk who pleaded anonymity said the boat had been carrying mostly students who were returning to Myeik city from the village after a two week break.

“The boat left from the village at 9 pm (1430 GMT) which was too late already, and it was overloaded and sunk,” he said.

Villagers had carried out cremations for the 11 bodies that had been recovered, he said, and local rescue teams were searching for the missing.

None of the recovered bodies were of students, the monk said.

Report indicates that boat accidents are common in Myanmar, a country with rudimentary transport and weakly enforced safety regulations.

Vessels ferrying people along the coastline and rivers are often dangerously overcrowded, and accidents can have staggering death tolls. It can also take several days for all bodies to be retrieved.

Over the weekend ND connect had reported that French Authorities confirmed that an overloaded migrant dinghy headed for the UK from France on Thursday night capsized and sank, killing one baby.

In a statement today by French maritime authorities on last Friday said that despite managing to rescue 65 people from the ship, this latest sinking makes 2024 the deadliest year since 2018 for migrants trying to cross the English Channel.

''A baby died when an overloaded migrant boat headed for Britain sank in the Channel off the coast of France on Thursday night, French maritime authorities said Friday.''

The accident occurred off the French town of Wissant, the maritime authority in charge of the Channel and the North Sea stated, adding that 65 people were rescued but a "baby was found unconscious and sadly declared dead".

The latest sinking brings the number of migrants who perished while trying to cross the Channel this year to at least 52, a record since 2018 according to report.

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11 Bodies Recovered As Boat Sinks Off Myanmar Coast

Rescuers have recovered eleven bodies after an overloaded boat carrying around 30 people sank in the Andaman Sea off Myanmar’s southern coast.

Authorities in Myanmar on Monday informed that the rest of the passengers are still missing.

“We found 10 bodies last night and one this morning,” said a monk from Kyauk Kar village in the southern Tanintharyi region, from where the boat had left Sunday evening.

According to a Monk who pleaded anonymity said the boat had been carrying mostly students who were returning to Myeik city from the village after a two week break.

“The boat left from the village at 9 pm (1430 GMT) which was too late already, and it was overloaded and sunk,” he said.

Villagers had carried out cremations for the 11 bodies that had been recovered, he said, and local rescue teams were searching for the missing.

None of the recovered bodies were of students, the monk said.

Report indicates that boat accidents are common in Myanmar, a country with rudimentary transport and weakly enforced safety regulations.

Vessels ferrying people along the coastline and rivers are often dangerously overcrowded, and accidents can have staggering death tolls. It can also take several days for all bodies to be retrieved.

Over the weekend ND connect had reported that French Authorities confirmed that an overloaded migrant dinghy headed for the UK from France on Thursday night capsized and sank, killing one baby.

In a statement today by French maritime authorities on last Friday said that despite managing to rescue 65 people from the ship, this latest sinking makes 2024 the deadliest year since 2018 for migrants trying to cross the English Channel.

''A baby died when an overloaded migrant boat headed for Britain sank in the Channel off the coast of France on Thursday night, French maritime authorities said Friday.''

The accident occurred off the French town of Wissant, the maritime authority in charge of the Channel and the North Sea stated, adding that 65 people were rescued but a "baby was found unconscious and sadly declared dead".

The latest sinking brings the number of migrants who perished while trying to cross the Channel this year to at least 52, a record since 2018 according to report.

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