Hundreds of people are missing after a boat sank near the Thailand-Malaysia border, with 10 survivors and one body recovered, the Malaysian maritime authority says.

More victims might still be found at sea some three days after the sinking of the vessel, which left Buthidaung, Myanmar, with about 300 people on board, First Admiral Romli Mustafa, the maritime authority director of the northern Malaysian states of Kedah and Perlis, said on Sunday.

Among the survivors found in the waters off Langkawi were three Myanmar men, two Rohingya men and one Bangladeshi man, while the body was that of a Rohingya woman, state media Bernama said, citing Kedah police chief Adzli Abu Shah.

Members of the mainly Muslim Rohingya minority periodically flee majority-Buddhist Myanmar, where they are seen as

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