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A boat carrying asylum seekers is pictured 120 miles north of Australia's Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean hours before it capsized on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority)
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People clamber on the rocky shore of Christmas Island during a rescue attempt as a boat breaks up on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. The wooden boat, packed with dozens of asylum seekers, smashed apart on cliff-side rocks in heavy seas off the Australian island, sending some to their deaths in the churning whitewater. (AP Photo/ABC)
