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Death and despair: Rescued Rohingya describe high-seas terror

Nearly 100 Rohingya were pulled to shore by locals in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia. [AFP]

A group of Rohingya say they were beaten by traffickers and drank their own urine to stay alive on a perilous four-month journey at sea until their dramatic rescue near the Indonesian coast.

The bedraggled survivors -- about 100 in all, mostly women and children -- described a high-seas horror story that saw them reduced to throwing the dead overboard as their rickety craft drifted thousands of kilometres towards Malaysia.

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