DHAKA: A small boat packed with refugees fleeing war-torn Myanmar sunk while crossing a river to Bangladesh on Tuesday, with at least 10 drowning, including young children, a local councillor said.

Adnan Chowdhury, the government administrator of Bangladesh’s Teknaf border town, said the boat was carrying about 29 Muslim Rohingya people from Myanmar.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2024