Asylum Seekers: Dedy Kusuma Bakti

Dedy Kusuma Bakti: Twenty-five people were rescued and transported to the Sukabumi immigration office for identification, said Cianjur police chief Lt. Col. Dedy Kusuma Bakti. The search for survivors was continuing, according to Times Colonist. Lebanon's official National News Agency said 17 Lebanese drowned in the incident. Nine members of a single family were among the Lebanese victims, with a woman and her eight children dying and her husband surviving, the agency reported and JAKARTA, Indonesia - A boat carrying dozens of asylum seekers sank off the coast of Indonesia's main island of Java on Friday, killing at least 21 people, an official said. Some survivors told officials that more than 100 asylum seekers from Lebanon, Pakistan and Iraq were believed to be aboard the boat, but the exact number of passengers was not known, Bakti said. Survivors said the boat was headed for Australia's Christmas Island. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.