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A rescued Bangladeshi is escorted by Indian Coast Guard personnel aboard the coast guard vessel Varad at Port Blair December 28, 2008
Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008

Open quoteThe men saw the lights of Hut Bay and over 300 jumped into the sea to swim ashore.Close quote

  • SP SHARMA,
  • Coastguard commander on the hundreds of migrants who are feared to have drowned trying to swim to Malaysia in the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 27
Photo: Sanjib Kumar Roy / Reuters | Source: The Guardian