Boat carrying Lebanese group to Australia sinks off Indonesia killing 17

Posted on September 27, 2013 • Filed under: Indonesia, Tourists Injured, Tourists Killed

Dailystar.co.lb reports that at least seventeen Lebanese including a number of children drowned on their way to Australia in a boat accident off the coast of Indonesia, a local official said Friday. “I only have confirmation that 17 people have died on the boat,” Ali Hussein, mukhtar of the northern village of Qabeet, where most of the victims are from, told The Daily Star. Read article

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