{"id":9679,"date":"2010-12-20T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T08:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2010-12-20T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:34:55","slug":"australian-shipwreck-killed-48-20122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/australian-shipwreck-killed-48-20122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian shipwreck &#8220;killed 48&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/christmas-island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9680\" title=\"Australia Boat Sinks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/christmas-island.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/christmas-island.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/christmas-island-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank last week off Christmas Island.<\/p>\n<p>So far 30 bodies have been recovered after the boat hit rocks and broke apart in stormy seas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have been talking to the 42 survivors to try to determine how many more people may still be missing.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Gillard said around 90 people were now thought to have been on the boat, but some bodies might not be recovered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may never know the precise number, but the advice to me is that the best estimate at present is that there were around 90 people on the boat,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That does mean of course that we are still not able to account for around 18 people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The passengers of the flimsy wooden boat are believed to have been Iranian, Iraqi and Kurdish asylum seekers making their way to Australia via Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Island lies in the Indian Ocean about 2,600km (1,600 miles) from the Australian mainland, but only 300km south of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank last week off Christmas Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}