More than 500 Rohingya disappear at sea: what happened?0

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• July 17, 2026

Two boats carrying some 530 Rohingya asylum seekers left Myanmar’s Rakhine state on June 29 and have not been heard from since. The equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people has disappeared. It is very likely that both capsized. The monsoon has begun, the sea is rough and the boats, usually old fishing trawlers