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| Missing migrant boat rescued off Indonesia | |
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| Migrants filmed by the BBC last week as they drifted off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by fishermen off Indonesia's Aceh province. | |
| The BBC's Jonathan Head had filmed the boat last Thursday when it was stranded with a broken engine. | |
| The migrants told him they had been at sea for more than two months after being abandoned by people smugglers. | |
| They told activists on Wednesday they had been towed out to sea three times by the Thai and Malaysian navies. | |
| The migrants, mainly Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, said they had been given food and water by Thai officials. | |
| Thousand of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are believed to have been abandoned in boats in the Andaman Sea after the Thai government launched a cracked down on the routes used by people smugglers. | |
| Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have been holding an emergency meeting to try to resolve the migrant crisis in the region. |