The screams were heard soon after the ailing boat emerged into view. The passengers were ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled surging gang violence and rampant hunger in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, only to find themselves adrift with a broken engine on the Andaman Sea. For a moment, it appeared their salvation had arrived in the form of another boat carrying Rohingya refugees that had pulled up alongside them.
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Survivor Muhammad Jubair, of another refugee boat, says the ailing vessel disappeared from view after a storm destroyed the engine on Jubair’s vessel and severed the ropes between the two boats.