Human smugglers cripple vessel’s engine and abandon Rohingya migrants

OFF KOH LIPE (Thailand): A boat crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants, including many young children, has been found drifting in Thai waters, according to an AFP reporter at the scene, with passengers saying several people had died over the last few days.

Dozens of weak-looking people were on the deck of the stricken vessel, which was found apparently adrift several kilometres off the southern Thai island of Koh Lipe, in the Andaman Sea.