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Summary Out of 200 immigrants who died in Indonesia boat capsize, 55 are said to be from Quetta.
More than 200 people were killed after a heavily overloaded boat packed with asylum-seekers sank off Indonesia en route to Australia a couple of days ago.It has emerged now that total 70 of the asylum seekers on board the ill-fated vessel were from Quetta. Fifteen of the Pakistanis had been rescued while 55 drowned.Their relatives in Quetta have requested the federal government to help them in transferring bodies back to their native are.Australias government called the sinking a terrible tragedy, but came under pressure from campaign groups which said its tough approach to refugees was partly responsible for such disasters.The fibreglass boat had a capacity of 100 but was overloaded with about 250 people when it sank on Saturday 40 nautical miles off eastern Java, in heavy rain and high waves, Indonesian officials said.Thirty-three survivors were plucked from the shark-infested waters, officials said. Fifteen others were rescued on Monday.
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