Indonesian authorities recovered two bodies from the shores of West Aceh on Saturday and said local fishermen reported several other drowning victims washed up after a vessel carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast earlier this week. More than 70 Rohingya were “presumed dead or missing”, which if confirmed would be the biggest loss of life in such an incident so far this year, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.

Seventy-five people were rescued.
“We have evacuated two bodies from the shores. We have identified them both as females,” Mirza Saprinadi, national head of operations at Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, told reporters, adding that immigration officers had confirmed the victims as Rohingya.