At least 27 bodies have been recovered after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar sank. The boat which was carrying around 70 migrants capsized off the coast of Malaysia and Thailand. More than 5,000 Rohingyas have embarked on dangerous boat journeys to leave Myanmar and Bangladesh this year - nearly 600 have been reported dead or missing according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. The mostly Muslim Rohingyas have been fleeing persecution from majority Buddhist Myanmar for decad

At least 11 Rohingya are dead and dozens more missing, after a boat capsized and sank on Sunday (Nov 9) off Langkawi, Malaysia, near its border with Thailand. Hundreds of Rohingya had set out for Malaysia two weeks ago, before being split into two boats. There were around 70 people on the vessel that sank near Langkawi, while the fate of the other boat carrying 230 passengers remains unclear. Malaysian authorities say search operations could go on a week. So far, they have found 13 survivors and