Boat with 40 people sinks near remote Cocos Islands

2009/11/01 15:53:10 @Reuters: International News

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A boat carrying around 40 people has sunk off the remote Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, with possibly only 15 people rescued, Australian officials and local media said Monday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=YHaaDSFWyGU:EnP8G3Tqp7Q:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=YHaaDSFWyGU:EnP8G3Tqp7Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=YHaaDSFWyGU:EnP8G3Tqp7Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=YHaaDSFWyGU:EnP8G3Tqp7Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=YHaaDSFWyGU:EnP8G3Tqp7Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/YHaaDSFWyGU" height="1" width="1"/
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