INDIAN authorities allegedly forced dozens of Rohingya refugees off a naval vessel into the sea near Myanmar last week, according to the United Nations, the refugees’ families and their lawyer.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that at least 40 Rohingya refugees, including children, women and elderly people, were detained in New Delhi before being flown to India’s eastern coast and pushed into the sea by the Indian navy near Myanmar’s maritime border. 

The group, provided with life jackets, swam ashore, but their whereabouts inside Myanmar remain unknown.