Malaysia turns back boats carrying 300 Myanmar migrants

Coast guard co-operates with Thai agencies, shuns revealing if migrants are Rohingya

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Rohingya refugees are escorted in their boat as they are handed over to immigration authorities at the Kuala Kedah ferry jetty in Malaysia on April 3, 2018. © Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -- Malaysia's coast guard escorted away from its waters two boats carrying almost 300 undocumented Myanmar migrants found in a state of exhaustion for lack of food and water, a top agency official said.

Authorities gave the migrants food supplies and clean drinking water after the boats were discovered on Friday two nautical miles southwest off the coast of the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi, the agency said.

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