FED:Possibly up to 100 onboard boat, Bowen

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2010
FED:Possibly up to 100 onboard boat, Bowen

The federal government says up to 100 people could have been aboard an asylum-seeker
boat that smashed onto rocks at Christmas Island.

At least 28 people .. including some children .. died when their wooden vessel foundered
in treacherous seas near Flying Fish Cove yesterday morning .. 44 people are known to
have survived.

Immigration Minister CHRIS BOWEN has told Melbourne radio MTR that survivors say there
were between 70 and 100 people on the ship.

AAP RTV rl/ar

KEYWORD: BOAT CAPSIZE (CANBERRA)

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