A search operation is underway for 25 persons who remain unaccounted for after a ship with about 42 people on board capsized in the waters off Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, according to an official.
The incident took place in Shibganj Upazila of Chapainawabganj of Bangladesh on Wednesday noon. At least 20 people were rescued alive. The boat was carrying a total of 50 passengers.
Coastguard officials believe that the Rohingya were on their way to Malaysia illegally.
The coastguard went to the rescue of an "overloaded and already listing boat six nautical miles from the island of Lampedusa" with about 50 migrants on board shortly after midnight on Monday, a statement said.
The wooden motorboat broke down on Tuesday after leaving from the east of the main island of Java late Monday.
At least 16 tourists, including nine women and two children, were killed and eight others went missing as a boat…
