Fishermen from North Aceh Regency in Indonesia on Friday (June 26th) rescued around 100 Rohingya refugees who were travelling in a rickety boat from Myanmar.

Footage showed the fishermen towing the refugees, including 30 children, to the shore of Lhokseumawem, near the northernmost tip of Sumatra.

The refugees had been denied access by local authorities due to coronavirus fears, so the fishermen stepped in to bring them to land.

They were then taken to immigration centres to be processed by the Indonesian police.

The refugees said at least 15 of them died on the dangerous four-month journey and were thrown into the sea. Others said they were beaten by human traffickers.

They also revealed they were forced to drink their own urine to survive.

This footage taken on June 26, 2020 shows a boat carrying Rohingya people from Myanmar arriving at the coastline when acehnesse fishermen helped evacuate a Rohingya child and woman and lined up as they went through identification procedures by Indonesian police at immigration detention centers in Lhokseumawe, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency

Nearly 100 Rohingyas from Myanmar, including 30 children, were rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on June 25 by local residents angry at the authorities' refusal to give them protection against fears of the coronavirus.

A group of Rohingya asylum seekers said at least 15 people were killed and thrown into the sea and also beaten by human traffickers and drinking their own urine to survive a dangerous four-month journey at sea until their dramatic rescue near the coast of Indonesia this week.

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