The bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia's westernmost coast after their boat, believed to be carrying around 150 people, capsized last week.
Six more bodies are being evacuated right now from 14 nautical miles (26 kilometers) offshore, Fathur Rahman, head of the local search and rescue operation, told AFP on Monday afternoon.
"They were all women. We heard about the bodies from a fisherman. The bodies will be taken to the hospital," he added.
Earlier on Monday, United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) officials told AFP five bodies had been recovered in recent days.
From mid-November to late January, 1,752 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, landed in the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra, according to the UNHCR.
