The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency received a distress call Sunday night from the captain of a wooden ship bound for Australia. The ship was taking on water and carrying 120 Afghan refugees. The Afghans were picked up and taken by tanker to a port on the western side of Indonesia’s Java Island. Refugees without legal documents are usually deported home while others may apply for asylum.
Indonesia rescues 120 Australia-bound Afghan migrants from a leaking wooden ship
These refugees were far luckier than those on a ship ship last December which sank killing at least 200 asylum seekers, many from Afghanistan. See our previous post – More than 200 Missing as Asylum Seeker’s Ship Sinks Off Indonesia.
Dear Rick Spilman,
If you provide us some more photos or a video from the 120 refugees rescued by the Indonesian police, it would be great.
Updated news and video may be found here:
Asylum seekers in new Indonesian stand-off
‘We don’t trust the police’
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where r they now in indonesia or ausitalia who alive 120 people and where other they find there body?