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Malaysia turns away 2 boats with nearly 300 Rohingya refugees after dozens landed on island (abcnews.go.com)

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Malaysian authorities said Saturday that they have turned away two boats carrying nearly 300 people believed to be Muslim Rohingya refugees who were found to have entered the country illegally.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said that it had information that two more boats were attempting to enter the country after a boatload of 196 Rohingya landed early Friday on a beach on the northeastern resort island of Langkawi. They were all detained by authorities.

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[–] sudoku@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

the first few words made me think it's talking about the MH flight search boats... quite relieved they aren't turning away those!