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Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift

Photo|Courtesy: Rohingya refugees stranded at sea are seen on a boat near the coast of Cox's Bazar.

Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February would be his ticket out of a camp in Bangladesh to a better life in Malaysia.

Instead, the voyage nearly killed him.

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