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'I was so scared of dying': Desperate Rohingyas swim from Myanmar to Bangladesh to flee violence
Nabi Hussain owes his life to a yellow plastic oil container.
The 13-year-old Rohingya boy couldn't swim, and had never even seen the sea before fleeing his village in Myanmar. But he clung to the empty container and struggled across the water with it for about 2.5 miles, all the way to Bangladesh.
Rohingya Muslims escaping the violence in their homeland of Myanmar are now so desperate that some are trying to swim to safety in neighbouring Bangladesh.