YANGON, July 14, 2015 (AFP) - Myanmar’s navy has discovered over a hundred migrants stranded for weeks on a southern island, state media said Tuesday, in the wake of a regional boat crisis earlier this year.
The group of 102 men were picked up by Myanmar’s navy off the coast of the country’s southernmost Tanintharyi region, according to a report by the Global New Light of Myanmar.
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