A total of 433 migrants presumed to be from Myanmar were rescued from two boats off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh during the early hours of Wednesday, according to Rappler Indonesia.
Search and rescue officials revealed that 102 people were rescued at around 2 a.m. and were then brought to shores in a village in the district of East Aceh. They were then followed by a second group of boat people being rescued and taken to the port of the same district a few hours later.
Medical people are already on the scene treating these people, many of whom were suffering from dehydration and a couple of them did not have any clothes on.
A fisherman recalled how he saw many people in a boat and that they were too weak to function due to lack of food and water. He immediately called for help and a search and rescue mission quickly went underway.
The 433 people are one of many Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar, all of whom fled the country in order to avoid imprisonment, and people from Bangladesh desperately trying to breakout from the country's crumbling famine, and have already arrived in Indonesia's Aceh after being turned away by human traffickers.
