Families sue Australia over Christmas Island deaths

Name: Families sue Australia over Christmas Island deaths
Uploaded: 2014-06-17T09:08:25.000Z
Duration: 44 s
Description: Relatives of dozens of asylum seekers who were killed in a shipwreck off Christmas Island in 2010 have launched a legal case against Australia.

This video can not be played

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Relatives of dozens of asylum seekers who were killed in a shipwreck off Christmas Island in 2010 have launched a legal case against Australia.

About 50 asylum seekers, mostly from Iraq and Iran, died when their boat broke up on rocks, as Jon Donnison explains.

Asia

17 June 2014