Authorities in Malaysia and Thailand have recovered at least 21 bodies as they search for survivors after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar sank, police and maritime officials said on Monday.

Officials said the boat was carrying about 70 migrants when it capsized near Thailand’s Ko Tarutao island, just north of Malaysia’s Langkawi Island, three days after departing from Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

They were believed to have been part of a larger group of some 300 people who were split between at least two boats, police said.

Tarutao is just north of Malaysia’s island resort of Langkawi, where officials said search-and-rescue operations were being concentrated.

Thirteen survivors have been rescued in Malaysian waters since Saturday, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency

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