Touhid Hussain, Foreign Affairs Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh, announced that about 8,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled the conflicts in Myanmar's Rakhine state have arrived in Bangladesh. "The country is unable to provide humanitarian asylum to more refugees and cannot accept any more Rohingya Muslims," he said.

Local Rohingya Muslims are being killed in clashes between the military and the rebel Arakan Army in western Myanmar's Rakhine state. Some of them, including the wounded with shrapnel and gunshot wounds, fled to neighboring Bangladesh.

Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine State remain one of the most persecuted and discriminated groups in the world. They were victims of genocide by Myanmar's military junta in 2012 and 2017, and later became the focus of international attention as refugees who fled the violence to countries such as Bangladesh. More than 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims currently live outside Myanmar, making them one of the largest stateless groups in the world.

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar face deportation in India. On March 8, the government of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees. The state's governor, Biren Singh, said on social media that his government would deport the first group of eight refugees who "entered India illegally". The deportation process was halted when the Myanmar government refused to cooperate with India on the matter. However, the Rohingya fear that this is a temporary problem.

The UN has asked the international community to allocate 852.4 million dollars to help the approximately 1 million Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar 7 years ago and the government of Bangladesh, which received them.

At least one of the ship's passengers died, and dozens more are in serious condition.