MERAK, Indonesia: Survivors from an asylum-seeker boat that sank off Indonesia pleaded on Friday to go to Australia and described how they had yelled at rescue vessels to save them, but nobody spotted them.
Fifty-four people - mostly males and all believed to be Afghans - were plucked from the ocean after their wooden boat broke up and sank early on Wednesday morning. Some had been languishing in the water for over 24 hours.
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