<span style="color: #222222;">Seventeen people belonging to the Rohingya community died and several others went missing after the boat in which they were trying to go to Malaysia sank off the coast of Myanmar over the weekend. Thirty five people including the boat owner were rescued alive while more than 50 people are still believed to be missing.<br />''<br />''According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the boat had left Sittwe in Myanmar's Rakhine province on 19th of May 19. It ran into bad weather in waters off Ayeyarwady Region, causing it to capsize near the coast of Pathein township on Saturday.<br />''<br />''Nearly 630 Rohingyas had tried to migrate from Myanmar through Bay of Bengal between January and May this year. Women and children made up 60 per cent of people undertaking these perilous maritime crossings.<br />''<br />''Close to six lakh Rohingya people, locally referred as Bengali people, are left in Myanmar after they fled the country following military crackdown in 2017. Close to a million Rohingyas are living in camps in Bangladesh. Malaysia is another main destination for Rohingya trying to flee from Myanmar.</span>