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Australia's deadliest asylum seeker boat disaster remembered 25 years on
On October 19, 2001, 353 people died when a fishing boat headed to Christmas Island sank in international waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java. Of the dead, 146 were children.
On October 19, 2001, 353 people died when a fishing boat headed to Christmas Island sank in international waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java. Of the dead, 146 were children.
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