Migrants filmed by the BBC last week as they drifted off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by fishermen off Indonesia’s Aceh province.
The BBC’s Jonathan Head had filmed the boat last Thursday when it was stranded with a broken engine.
The migrants told him they had been at sea for more than two months after being abandoned by people smugglers.
They told activists on Wednesday they had been towed out to sea three times by the Thai and Malaysian navies.
The migrants, mainly Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, said they had been given food and water by Thai officials.
Thousand of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are believed to have been abandoned in boats in the Andaman Sea after the Thai government launched a cracked down on the routes used by people smugglers.
Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have been holding an emergency meeting to try to resolve the migrant crisis in the region.
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