Bangladesh stops scores of Rohingya seeking to sail to Indonesia

Ethnic Rohingya disembark from their boat upon landing in Ulee Madon, North Aceh, Indonesia, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. - AP

TEKNAF (Bangladesh)/Jakarta (AFP): Bangladesh police have clamped down on Rohingya refugees setting sail to Indonesia, officers said Saturday, after hundreds from the persecuted Myanmar minority took the long and risky sea voyage to escape squalid camps.

Some said they had paid traffickers a relative fortune of US$1,000 for a place on a boat.