As reported by Reuters.com, a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia, most of them from the Middle East, has sunk off the Indonesian coast killing at least 21 people, Indonesian television reported on Friday. Metro TV said 25 people survived. Officials were not immediately available for comment. The politically charged issue of asylum seekers has become a sore point in relations between Australia and Indonesia. The latest accident, the second in recent months, comes ahead of Monday’s official visit to Indonesia by new Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Read article
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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 […]
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According to thestar.com.my, a tourist from China died while snorkeling at Sapi Island, about a 15-minute boat ride from the city. Vu Shun Ru, 35, who arrived from Shanghai on Thursday, had gone to the island the next day. While there, his family members saw him struggling in the water and sought help from swimmers. […]
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Thejakartaglobe.com reports that seven foreign tourists were injured after a boat caught fire near Padangbai harbor in Bali on Thursday. The Ocean Star Express I boat, which transported people from Bali to neighboring Lombok island, was carrying 32 passengers — all of whom were foreign tourists — when the boat caught fire not far from […]
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According to thejakartaglobe.com, search and rescue crews were dispatched to Central Java’s Mount Merapi in search of two German tourists who failed to return from a Sunday morning climb, an agency official said on Monday. An unidentified man and woman “climbed Mount Merapi from a southern route on Sunday morning and have not yet returned,” […]
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Eturbonews.com reports that tourists to the West Java in Indonesia were urged to obey the regulations and not to swim out into the sea. If the tide is high and the night falls, tourists may not swim or be in the water. As many as 60 tourists were stung by jellyfish at Pelabuhanratu Beach, West […]
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Latimes.com reported that, lava from an erupting volcano killed six people sleeping in a beach village on a small island in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, after ash and smoke from the volcano shot about a mile into the air, officials said. Mount Rokatenda in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted early Saturday morning, and nearly 3,000 […]
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Thehindu.com reports that three people have drowned and about 40 others were still missing after a fishing boat carrying mostly asylum-seekers to Australia sank off Indonesia’s Java Island, police said on Wednesday. At least 160 people from Bangladesh, Iran and Sri Lanka were rescued after the accident on Tuesday, said West Java police chief Inspector-General […]
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According to thestar.com.my, a South Korean woman tourist drowned while trying to save her husband during a snorkeling outing at Tanjung Langir, Pulau Perhentian Besar, near here on Sunday. Kim Dong Huk (pic), 52, who tried to save her husband who had difficulty breathing, died at the Pulau Perhentian Health Clinic after being rescued by […]
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Al Jazeera reports that the Australian navy has rescued an Indonesian boat carrying about 80 suspected asylum seekers after it developed snag in the seas south of the Pacific country, on a day the two countries held talks over the issue of illegal migrants, officials say. The boat put out a distress signal on Friday […]
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