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2010 Christmas Island boat disaster

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2010 Christmas Island boat disaster

On 15 December 2010, a boat carrying around 90 asylum seekers, mostly from Iraq and Iran, sank off the coast of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, killing 48 people aboard; 42 survivors were rescued.[2][3][4] The boat was later named SIEV-221.[5]

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