Sri Lanka's navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees found adrift aboard a fishing trawler

Headline: CTV News

Navy vessels then escorted the trawler to naval base on Sri Lanka’s east coast where they were given medical care, food and water.
Associated Press
The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee.
Aljazeera
The mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar and thousands risk their lives each year on long sea journeys, the majority heading southeast to Malaysia or Indonesia.
Hürriyet Daily News
But the navy believes the group to be from Myanmar.
Newsmax

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Medical checks have to be done before they are allowed to disembark,
the spokesman said

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