(CNN) -- Indonesian authorities found 198 refugees from Myanmar early Tuesday off the country's west coast who said they had been drifting in a wooden boat for three weeks after they'd been towed out to sea by the Thai military. This picture provided to CNN is said to be the Thai army towing refugees out to sea. A survivor told Indonesian immigration officials that his boat was part of a group of boats carrying about 1,200 people who were set adrift by Thai military forces who had found them. The survivor also said 220 people had been on his boat, but 22 died, said Iwan Riyanto, an Indonesian immigration official. An official with the Sabang Region Navy also told CNN that the survivors on the boat said they had been set adrift by the Thai military.
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Boat people say they were part of group of nine boats of 1,200 people
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Group claims Thai military abandoned them at sea
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Thai army denies allegations; government has launched an inquiry
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Delegates from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar in Thailand
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