Rohingya toddler found at sea dies

Tragic end: Shahira weighed no more than a six-month-old baby when rescued from sea. An Indonesian doctor is seen here attending to the toddler one day before she died. — AFP

LANGSA (Indonesia): Beneath the swaying banana trees, there is ­nothing but a few plants to mark the resting place of three-year-old Shahira Bibi and the horror of the final weeks of her short life, at sea on a migrant boat.

When the tiny Rohingya girl from Myanmar was finally rescued from the sinking vessel off Indonesia’s western Aceh province, her body was already wracked with spasms and weighed no more than a six-month-old baby.