Hundreds Missing After Migrant Boat Capsizes Near Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Hundreds of migrants remain missing after a boat carrying about 300 people from Myanmar capsized in the Indian Ocean near the Thailand-Malaysia maritime border last week, Malaysian officials reported on Sunday. At least 10 survivors were rescued drifting off the northern Malaysian island of Langkawi, and the body of one woman was recovered from the sea.

The vessel departed from Buthidaung in Myanmar's Rakhine state around a month ago, according to preliminary investigations by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. As the group approached the border, the migrants were transferred from the larger boat to three smaller vessels, each holding approximately 100 people, in an effort to evade detection by authorities, said Kedah police chief Datuk Adzli Abu Shah. One of those smaller boats sank about three days before the rescues, likely in Thai waters, before survivors drifted into Malaysian territory. The whereabouts of the other two boats and their passengers are unknown.

First Admiral Romli Mustafa, director of the maritime agency for the northern states of Kedah and Perlis, confirmed that search and rescue operations began on Saturday after reports of...