Singapore helps to rescue over 300 suspected migrants from sinking boat off Vietnam
A file photo of ships out at sea.
International news agency AFP reported that the “suspected migrants” on the boat, including 20 children, were from Sri Lanka and were thought to have been headed to Canada.
In response to TODAY’s queries on Tuesday, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said that the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) here had received information at about 12.20pm on Monday from its counterpart in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.
The information stated that a wooden vessel within Singapore's search and rescue region had reported that they were sinking.
Singapore’s maritime search and rescue region covers both the waters around the island of Singapore as well as over one million square kilometres of the South China Sea.
