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Immigration Ministry denies knowledge of the sinking of dozens of displaced Faily Kurds on a trip to Australia

Shafaq News/ Ministry of Displacement and Migration, denied on Tuesday, its knowledge of the killing and the loss of dozens of displaced Faily Kurds to Iran that were drowned after smugglers wood shipwreck which were  traveling to Australia had sunk opposite the Indonesian coast mid-December of last year, expressing their interest to pursue this issue with the Australian authorities through the Iraqi embassy in Australia.", "The Ministry of Displacement and Migration has no knowledge of the sinking of dozens of Iraqi Faily Kurds off the coast of Indonesia." The deputy Minister of Immigration and immigrants Asghar Musawi said to  "Shafaq  News."Shafaq News" ran a story, earlier, which revealed that dozens of displaced Faily Kurds to Iran drowned or were missed after the sinking of a wooden ship which was traveling from exile in Iran to Australia opposite the coast of Indonesia.

Earlier reports indicated that the rescue teams pulled dozens of bodies of drowned migrants after a rickety boat carrying more than the capacity, opposite the coast of the Indonesian island of Java, nobody was survived but a few of the passengers, according to reports from rescue teams.

Among 250 passengers crammed in the boat by smugglers in the launch from Indonesia, only 47 people were rescued when the boat in a rough sea water where sharks abound in it .

Most of these immigrants were seeking access to Australia via Australia's Christmas Island located 300 km from the coast of Indonesia.

The boat, sank  40 nautical miles (about 75 kilometers) from the eastern coast of the island of Java (east) with its passengers of men, women and children, the elderly most of whom were not good swimmers.