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Friday, 28 June, 2002, 03:53 GMT 04:53 UK
Four more Woomera escapees caught
Asylum seekers climb Woomera's detention centre fence
Police in Australia have recaptured a further four people who escaped from a detention centre for asylum seekers in a mass break-out aided by protestors from outside the camp. More than twenty people remain at large after the second such incident at the Woomera detention centre this year. From Sydney, Dominic Hughes reports:)

Four more of the asylum seekers have now been recaptuired in Australia after the mass breakout from the Woomera detention centre just before midnight on Thursday. But more than 20 are still at large. The immigration minister Philip Ruddock said that the breskout was deliberate and organsied by people who'd been in contact with the detainees. Lyn Brewer is a Labour MP for state of South Australia.....she joins us on the line now...

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