Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare: Australia

Australian Air Force Dept: An air and sea search was ongoing for as many as 19 people who could still be missing, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said, according to The Star. Three merchant ships, two Australian warships and an Australian air force plane that can drop life rafts to the sea responded to the capsizing, which occurred midway between Australia s Christmas Island and the main Indonesian island of Java and cANBERRA, AUSTRALIA A crowded boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia capsized and sank Wednesday and 130 survivors and one body were recovered from the Indian Ocean, less than a week after more than 90 people drowned on a similar journey. The information that we have is that there were as many as 150 people on the boat, Clare told reporters. That leaves many people still unaccounted for. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.