GEORGE TOWN: A boat crammed with more than 500 illegal immigrants has been found off the coast of Penang island, the latest evidence that thousands of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas are desperately trying to reach land after being abandoned by their human traffickers.
There is no information if the overcrowded boat will be allowed to come on shore, said Zafar Ahmad, who heads the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organisation of Malaysia.
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