UN pleads for Rohingya rescue as Malaysians push boats back out to sea

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated May 14 2015 - 6:28pm, first published 6:06pm
Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants receive food inside a temporary shelter in Lhoksukon in Aceh. Photo: Antara Foto/Reuters
Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants receive food inside a temporary shelter in Lhoksukon in Aceh. Photo: Antara Foto/Reuters

Bangkok: Malaysia has turned away a boat carrying 500 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis amid warnings that pushing migrants and asylum seekers back out to sea could lead to their deaths from starvation and disease.

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