Indonesia: 217 Missing After Boat Sinks off Java
A boat carrying asylum seekers sank off the coast of Indonesia’s East Java province in stormy weather, leaving 217 people missing, the National Search and Rescue Agency said. Thirty-three people were rescued.
The passengers included people from Afghanistan heading to Australia’s Christmas Island, Gagah Prakosa, the agency’s spokesman said by telephone and mobile-phone text messages from Jakarta yesterday. The boat had illegally entered Indonesian waters, he said.
The full article is at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-18/indonesia-217-missing-after-boat-sinks-off-java.html
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