A trawler carrying roughly 280 people — Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, including children — capsized in the Andaman Sea after departing Teknaf, southern Bangladesh, on 4 April, bound for Malaysia, the UN refugee agency UNHCR reported on Tuesday. Heavy winds, rough seas, and overcrowding caused the vessel to sink; only nine survivors were pulled from the water by a Bangladeshi coast guard ship on 9 April, after floating for nearly 36 hours clinging to drums and logs. The disaster underscores the deadly toll of irregular sea migration among the Rohingya (Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority), hundreds of thousands of whom live in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar and attempt the perilous crossing to Southeast Asia each year in boats organised by human trafficking networks.