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Thu, 2011-12-22 12:54
The vessel — carrying 250 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran — capsized after being slammed by a huge wave in stormy weather. Only 49 people are known to have survived.
Sutrisno, a rescue official, says that 86 bloated corpses have been plucked from the sea so far, many of them carried as many as 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the capsize site by swift currents, including 13 found Thursday off Bali.
A 7-year-old boy was among them.
The Indonesian archipelago’s thousands of miles of unpatrolled coastline make it a key transit point for smuggling migrants.
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