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| Subject: Thanks to OZschwitz statists, over 90 new asylum seekers missing, feared dead Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:20 pm | |
| The number of asylum seekers found alive after their boat sank off Indonesia has increased to more than 50, but at least 90 are still missing.
Fifty-five asylum seekers have now been plucked from the sea after their boat sank near the coast of Java.
Three of the survivors have serious injuries but are in a stable condition on board the Australian Navy boat HMAS Maitland.
The ABC has been told that one person may have suffered a shark bite.
Another six of the survivors have been taken to the Indonesian port city of Merak for medical attention.
The search and rescue operation has now been scaled back until first light on Friday.
Several boats will remain in the area overnight but authorities say it will be hard to find further survivors in the dark.
Up to 150 people are believed to have been on board the boat, which first made distress calls on Wednesday morning.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/14712187/more-survivors-found-after-asylum-boat-sinking/ |
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