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Saturday, May 7, 2016
Australia deports 12 Sri Lankan asylum seekers
Fri, May 6, 2016
Australia has deported the 12 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, who arrived within the Cocos Islands via sea in a boat on Monday, and they have returned to Sri Lanka this morning.
The Asylum seekers arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) early Friday morning in a special Australian flight. A woman and two children were among the deportees, authorities said.
All the deportees were arrested on arrival and handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) by the Immigration and Emigration officers, an official said.
Australian authorities intercepted the boat with the 12 Sri Lankan Asylum seekers when it came near the Cocos Islands, a territory of Australia. Australian Federal Police met the boat and escorted it to a mooring and the asylum seekers were then taken aboard an Australia Border Force vessel, according to Australian media.
It was the first asylum seeker boat reported to have arrived in Australia in nearly two years.
In an interview with a radio journalist, Australia's Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton said Australia has a a lot of assets at sea to stop asylum seekers entering the country's shores and send them back.
"We have air crews, we have surveillance techniques, we use a lot of support to make sure that we stop boats and if we find boats to turn them around where it's safe to do so," Dutton said.
"We have boats and we have some of the best people within the Australian Border Force and the Royal Australian Navy involved in Operation Sovereign Borders," he said.
Fri, May 6, 2016Australia has deported the 12 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, who arrived within the Cocos Islands via sea in a boat on Monday, and they have returned to Sri Lanka this morning.
The Asylum seekers arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) early Friday morning in a special Australian flight. A woman and two children were among the deportees, authorities said.
All the deportees were arrested on arrival and handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) by the Immigration and Emigration officers, an official said.
Australian authorities intercepted the boat with the 12 Sri Lankan Asylum seekers when it came near the Cocos Islands, a territory of Australia. Australian Federal Police met the boat and escorted it to a mooring and the asylum seekers were then taken aboard an Australia Border Force vessel, according to Australian media.
It was the first asylum seeker boat reported to have arrived in Australia in nearly two years.
In an interview with a radio journalist, Australia's Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton said Australia has a a lot of assets at sea to stop asylum seekers entering the country's shores and send them back.
"We have air crews, we have surveillance techniques, we use a lot of support to make sure that we stop boats and if we find boats to turn them around where it's safe to do so," Dutton said.
"We have boats and we have some of the best people within the Australian Border Force and the Royal Australian Navy involved in Operation Sovereign Borders," he said.
