Iraqis turned back to Indonesia after bid to reach Australia by boat

Australian authorities have turned back 13 Iraqis who travelled by boat from Indonesia, according to a local police chief in the South-East Asian nation’s southernmost province

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“The information is that [the wooden boat] was held back by the Australian customs,” Rote Ndao police chief I Nyoman Putra Sandita said. Police said there were six women and three children on the boat, the youngest of them a one-year-old boy. Nurhalima Ain, 28, whose husband Isro Pello was on board, told them the Australian navy had brought them back to Indonesian waters.

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