Fishermen from North Aceh Regency in Indonesia on Friday (June 26th) rescued around 100 Rohingya refugees who were travelling in a rickety boat from Myanmar.<br /><br />Footage showed the fishermen towing the refugees, including 30 children, to the shore of Lhokseumawem, near the northernmost tip of Sumatra. <br /><br />The refugees had been denied access by local authorities due to coronavirus fears, so the fishermen stepped in to bring them to land.<br /><br />They were then taken to immigration centres to be processed by the Indonesian police. <br /><br />The refugees said at least 15 of them died on the dangerous four-month journey and were thrown into the sea. Others said they were beaten by human traffickers.<br /><br />They also revealed they were forced to drink their own urine to survive.
