(VOVworld) - More than 700 refugees found adrift on a fishing boat six days ago have disembarked in western Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Rohingya minority people crossed the sea on simple boats (Photo: VNA)

Before they were intercepted, the migrants had been heading south towards Malaysia, which along with Indonesia and Thailand has seen 3,500 hungry people arrive in recent weeks in a migrant crisis. Most of the migrants are said to be Rohingya Muslim minority of Myanmar and Bangladesh who migrate to escape poverty.