Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead, missing in shipwrecks in 2025: United Nations
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“Last year was the deadliest on record for Rohingya refugees fleeing by sea, with deaths continuing to soar in 2026, the UN said Friday (April 17, 2026), after hundreds were lost in a shipwreck earlier this month.”
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Multiple web search results report the claim's core elements: that the UN stated the previous year was the deadliest on record for Rohingya refugees fleeing by sea, and that deaths were continuing to rise in 2026. The MSN and Euronews search results directly reflect the phrasing and context of the original claim regarding the UN statement and the record deaths.
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— The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Tatmadaw (armed forces of Myanmar). The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
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— The Rohingya people (; Rohingya: 𐴌𐴗𐴥𐴝𐴙𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝, romanized: ruáingga; IPA: [rʊˈɜi̯ɲ.ɟə]) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who predominantly follow Islam from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Before …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people
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— Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals from Rakhine State who are living in Bangladesh. The Rohingya people have experienced ethnic and religious persecution in Myanm…
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“"In 2025, nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal," the United Nations refugee agency's spokesman Babar Baloch told a press briefing in Geneva.”
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The claim is directly and consistently reported across multiple independent web search results, citing the same information: that the UN refugee agency's spokesman, Babar Baloch, stated in Geneva that nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported missing or dead in 2025. Three separate web search results confirm this specific attribution and figure.
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— Mohammad Abdus Salam (; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow…
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— Khawaja Muhammad Asif (born 9 August 1949) is a Pakistani politician who has served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan since 2022, having previously served in the post from 2013 to 2017. He has been …
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— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto NPk (5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and later as the ninth prim…
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