About 130 people are missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees who were headed for Malaysia sank off Bangladesh, according to Bangladesh police and a Rohingya advocacy group on Wednesday. Mohammad Farhad, police inspector at Teknaf on the south-east tip of Bangladesh, told AFP that one survivor from the sinking on the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar reported that the boat had about 135 passengers on board.
"The boat was heading to Malaysia illegally," Farhad said, adding that the 24-year-old survivor was being held in custody.