The Australian government has received reports that a family of six people from the Indonesian province of West Papua are camping on Bamboo Island in the Torres Strait. The Australian customs service is trying to verify the accuracy of the reports. Father Yus Mawengkang, a Catholic priest in Papua, said the family had been transported to the island on fishing boats and hoped that they would be collected by Australian authorities. He was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as saying, "They cannot stay there for too long… they only have some packets of instant noodles and canned fish only to survive for a few days."
The Australian government has received reports that a family of six people from the Indonesian province of are camping on Bamboo Island in the Torres Strait. The Australian customs service is trying to verify the accuracy of the reports. Father Yus Mawengkang, a priest in Papua, said the family had been transported to the island on fishing boats and hoped that they would be collected by Australian authorities. He was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as saying, "They cannot stay there for too long… they only have some packets of instant noodles and canned fish only to survive for a few days."
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