VILLAGERS in Indonesia’s Aceh province have discovered a stranded boat carrying 81 Rohingya who had left a refugee camp in Bangladesh, officials said today.

Miftach Cut Adek, the leader of the local tribal fishing community, said that 90 people were on board the boat when it left the refugee camp on February 11 but that nine had died during the trip.

More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar to camps in Bangladesh since August 2017, when the military launched a clearance operation in response to attacks by a rebel group.