Australia shock at asylum boat tragedy off Indonesia

Australians accept been cogent shock afterwards a baiter abounding with cover seekers agitated on its way from Indonesia, killing at atomic seven people.Some 57 people, anticipation to be from Iran and Afghanistan, were rescued but abounding others are still missing.Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said he accepted no added survivors.The tragedy has reopened the long-running agitation in Australia about the fate of cover seekers aggravating to ability the country by boat.Prime Minister Julia Gillard had approved to accouterment the affair by accordant a accord with Malaysia whereby hundreds of the cover seekers would be candy there.Thousands of cover seekers try to ability Australia by baiter every year, abounding advantageous people-smugglers in Indonesia to carriage them.The baiter that agitated on Tuesday was sailing from the anchorage of Cilacap forth the bank to Kupang in West Timor province, a accepted alteration point acclimated by people-smugglers.It went bottomward in bad acclimate off Java. Indonesian accomplishment admiral said seven bodies had so far been recovered and 57 bodies had been saved.But they accepted the afterlife assessment to acceleration because the cover seekers had been awash beneath deck.