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Six dead as boat carrying Rohingya fleeing Myanmar arrives in Indonesia

Local authorities in Indonesia say the refugees will be kept in tents on the beach until authorities find shelter for them [Tuah Al-Banna/AFP]

Six people have died as nearly 100 Rohingya landed by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province in the latest wave of arrivals from Myanmar in recent days.

Miftach Tjut Adek, chief of a local fishing community, told the Reuters news agency on Thursday that 96 people, including seven children, were still at a beach in the eastern part of Aceh on Sumatra island.

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