After spending seven months in sea, over 300 Rohingya migrants landed on a beach in Lhokseumawe city on Sumatra’s northern coast in Indonesia, United Nations officials said. This is one of the biggest landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in years, AFP reported. The group included –102 men, 181 women, and 14 children.

“From their testimonies, they said that they were seven months adrift,” said UN refugee agency coordinator Oktina. “We have seen their condition is very weak at the moment,” she added. The officials also said that the migrants were kept as hostages while traffickers extorted money from their families.

“We don’t really know the full story yet,” Oktina said.

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The locals provided the refugees with food and clothing. “We’re concerned about their condition. They need help in the name of humanity… They’re human beings like us,” said Lhokseumawe resident Aisyah.

Earlier in June, close to 100 Rohingyans, mostly women and children, arrived in the same area following what they described as a perilous four-month journey that saw them beaten by traffickers and forced to drink their own urine to stay alive. Both groups started their journey from Bangladesh.

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In what UN has described as the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis, around a million Muslim Rohingya live in cramped and squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh — next to their native Myanmar — where human traffickers run lucrative operations promising to find them sanctuary abroad.