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21 Temmuz 2008 19:16:45
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Sri Lanka Navy (3rd March 2008) rescued a vessel load of illegal foreign job seekers who had been marooned for 13 days at sea at a distance of 150 nautical miles off the Eastern coast of Sri Lanka.
The wooden hull vessel with 91 persons on board had left from Cox's Bazaar located on the Myanmar and Bangladesh boarder on the 9th February. The passengers comprised of 67 Myanmar nationals and 24 Bangladeshi persons. They were heading for Thailand and Malaysia for lucrative employment.
The vessel had developed an engine defect on the 20th and begun to drift for 13 days until it was rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy. According to the passengers on the vessel, 20 of their colleagues (17 Myanmar nationals and 3 Bangladeshi persons) had died of starvation and dehydration due to the lack of food and water.
The Navy launched the search operation for the vessel after they had been alerted of a sighting of a suspicious vessel by the fishermen off Mulaithievu on the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka.
The ill-fated vessel is now being towed to the Trincomalee Harbour by the Navy after providing food and medical treatment to the 71 passengers who were lucky enough to be alive after the 13-day ordeal at sea. There are 50 Myanmar nationals and 21 Bangladeshi persons among them.
Sri Lanka Navy has appraised the respective embassies and diplomatic missions of the incident.An engine failure has occurred on 20, February and they had no option but to drift out in the deep seas. Lack of food and water made the survivability of the 91 crew onboard and as a result of this 17 Myanmar nationals and 03 Bangladeshi's have passed away onboard. Fifty (50) Myanmar nationals and 21 Bangladeshi's remain in the vessels at the time of the rescue mission by the naval vessels

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