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        Rescue Teams Deployed as Asylum Boat Sinks Off Indonesian Coast

   Australian authorities say a boat carrying as many as 150 asylum
   seekers has sunk off the southwest coast of the Indonesian island of
   Java.
   Details were sketchy early Wednesday, with unconfirmed reports of
   dozens of people dead or missing.
   The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said the boat left an
   Indonesian fishing village Tuesday bound for Australia`s Christmas
   Island, and sank a short while later when hit by heavy easterly winds.
   There was no immediate information on the nationality of the
   passengers.
   Australian radio quotes the AMSA as saying Indonesia is coordinating
   rescue operations and that search teams have been deployed to the area.
   Hundreds of would-be asylum seekers -- many from Afghanistan and other
   South Asian nations -- have drowned in recent years trying to reach
   Australia from Indonesia in flimsy boats operated by people smugglers.
   The Australian government says more than 15,000 refugees have arrived
   on boats so far this year.
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