Bangladeshi fishermen have been cramming their boats since late August with desperate Rohingya fleeing a Myanmar security crackdown that the United Nations has denounced as ethnic cleansing. Bangladeshi police officer Mohammed Mainuddin told Reuters that 12 bodies -- 10 children, one woman and a man -- had been recovered. A Reuters photographer earlier saw the bodies of four children, two women and a man washed up on a beach. The European Union and the United States are considering targeted sanctions against Myanmar military leaders over the violence, officials familiar with the discussions say. In early September, 46 bodies were recovered after a boat sank in the narrow stretch of water that separates Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Source: Bangkok Post October 09, 2017 07:41 UTC