The UN said the incidents highlighted the plight of Rohingya, calling for enhanced rescue and anti-trafficking efforts
The UN’s International Organization for Migration and its refugee agency UNHCR voiced alarm in a joint statement at reports “that two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days”.
The statement said that one boat, believed to have been carrying around 250 people, lost contact shortly after departure.
A second boat, reportedly carrying some 280 people, is meanwhile believed to have sunk off Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady coast on July 8.