WA: Four injured boat people released from hospital

AAP General News (Australia)
04-30-2009
WA: Four injured boat people released from hospital

The Department of Immigration says four asylum seekers released from a Perth hospital
will be held in immigration residential housing in Perth while they undergo oupatient
treatment.

Seven of the 19 who remain in hospital have been processed and formally detained.

The other 12 remain too ill to undergo departmental checks.

They were all among 23 asylum seekers treated .. following a fatal boat explosion off
Western Australia earlier this month.

Five people died in the April 16 explosion aboard the vessel carrying 47 Afghan asylum
seekers and two Indonesian crewmen .. after it was apprehended in Australian waters near
Ashmore Reef.

AAP RTV was/wz/crh

KEYWORD: BOAT PERTH (PERTH)

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