The boat had travelled from Indonesia with around 80 people on board. 50 are feared dead
Some refugees managed to don life jackets as they desperately clung to pieces of wreckage
Up to 50 people are feared dead after a boat filled with desperate asylum-seekers crashed into cliffs and overturned near an island off the west Australian coast today.
The screams of people thrown into the water could be heard by residents on Christmas Island as rescue boats sped to the wrecked vessel.
The wooden boat, which is believed to have set off from Indonesia carrying about 80 asylum seekers, smashed into the cliffs near Flying Fish Cove on the north of the Island resulting in what authorities said were an 'unknown number of dead'.
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