Survivors found in search for Australia asylum boat

Name: Survivors found in search for Australia asylum boat
Uploaded: 2012-08-31T10:24:48.000Z
Duration: 1 min 57 s
Description: More than 50 people have been rescued after a boat packed with migrants sank off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday. A hundred and fifty people were thought to have been on board.

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More than 50 people have been rescued after a boat packed with migrants sank off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday.

A hundred and fifty people were thought to have been on board.

As the BBC's Duncan Kennedy reports from Sydney, refugees seeking asylum in Australia often set sail in dangerous and overcrowded boats.

Duncan Kennedy reports.

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31 August 2012