About 300 illegal migrants are feared to have drowned in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands.
The migrants went missing after they jumped from a drifting boat and tried to swim ashore. More than 100 people have been rescued so far.
A survivor told police that more than 400 people had been on the boat, trying to reach Malaysia.
The migrants are thought to be from Bangladesh and Burma.
"One body has been recovered so far and search operations are still going on in nearby islands for survivors," Ranjith Narayan, Director General of Police in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, told the BBC. Read more
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