102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka's eastern port of Trincomalee.
More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar they are rescued while traveling on a fishing boat in the Indian Ocean by the Sri Lankan navy, which brought them to port.
102 people, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka's eastern port of Trincomalee, a navy spokesman said on Friday.
“A medical examination must be carried out before he is allowed to disembark,” the spokesman said.
Many Rohingya Muslims are persecuted in Myanmar and thousands risk their lives each year on the long sea journey, many heading south east to Malaysia or Indonesia.
But fishermen spotted a boat drifting off Sri Lanka's northern coast at Mullivaikkal in the early hours of Thursday.
A navy spokesman said on Friday that language barriers had made it difficult to understand where the migrants had gone, and that “recent weather” may have hindered them.
Although unusual, it is not the first boat to go to Sri Lanka, which is 1,750 kilometers (1,100 miles) across the open seas southwest of Myanmar.
In October, six people died out of a total of 100 Rohingya landed on a boat in the Aceh province of Indonesia in one of the new arrivals from Myanmar.
The Sri Lankan navy rescued more than 100 Rohingya refugees in distress from a boat off the coast in December 2022.
In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh during a military crackdown, which is now the subject of a United Nations genocide tribunal.
Myanmar's military seized power in 2021 and the civil war since then has forced millions of people to flee.
The Rohingya have them he endured about the recent wars because they forced them to join the army despite their unknown citizenship.