Twenty-three people have been rescued after an overcrowded boat capsized off the Bangladesh coast, but about 50 others remain missing, officials said.
The boat was reportedly carrying about 70 illegal migrants, mostly Rohingya Muslims, to Malaysia when it sank in the Bay of Bengal early yesterday.
Border commander Zahid Hossain said no bodies had been recovered, but he quoted several survivors as saying they saw some bodies after the boat sank off Bangladesh's Teknaf coast, 200 miles south of the capital Dhaka.
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