More boats carrying Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh approach Indonesia

More boats carrying Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh approach Indonesia
An earlier arrival of ethnic Rohingya in Ulee Madon, North Aceh, Indonesia (Rahmat Mirza/AP)

Indonesian authorities have detected at least five boats packed with refugees approaching the shores of Aceh province, officials said on Thursday.

The boats are the latest in a surge of vessels that have arrived in Aceh, most carrying Rohingya refugees from southern Bangladesh, where the persecuted Muslim minority fled in 2017 following attacks by the military in their homeland of Myanmar.

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