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10:25 am AEST
April 27 2000 |
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More boat people found off WA |
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AAP -- A boat carrying 76 suspected illegal immigrants
was picked up today off Ashmore Reef.
The Australian Customs
Service said the Indonesian fishing vessel arrived at the islands,
to the north-west of Australia about 7am (AWST) (0900 AEST), and was
intercepted by the Customs boat Botany Bay.
Navy vessels HMAS
Gawler and HMAS Bendigo will help escort the boat and its passengers
and four crew to the mainland.
"The ACV Botany Bay was
patrolling in the area at the time after picking up four other
suspected illegal immigrants from the reef on Tuesday," a Customs
spokesman said.
"A flight by a Coastwatch Dash-8 patrol
aircraft had sighted the four on the reef late on
Monday."
The boat people would be handed to immigration
department officials when they reached the mainland, the spokesman
said.
The latest arrivals are the first for April.
Two
hundred and sixty-one boat people arrived in Australian waters last
month. |
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