Australia calls it a "closing-down sale" for people smugglers: Asylum-seekers in rickety boats are reaching its shores in record numbers ahead of a tougher deportation policy starting in September. For many migrants, the price of haste may be death. About 150 people were aboard an overcrowded, wooden fishing boat that sank off the Indonesia coast as it headed for a remote Australian island. Only 54 people had been rescued by Friday morning, and one body had been recovered, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. The captain of one rescue vessel believes he saw bodies in the water. The emergency was the latest created by a growing human smuggling trade in which thousands of would-be...
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