Australian police battle immigrants
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Australian police battle immigrants |
| In Australia police and security guards have used water cannon and tear gas to control a riot in the country's biggest detention centre for illegal immigrants. The riot began when about eighty people set fire to buildings in the campat Woomera (475kms north of Adelaide), destroying at least four and seriously damaging others. The BBC's Red Harrison reports from Sydney. |
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Australian immigration minister Philip Ruddock: "The detention centres are not holiday camps, but they are not jails" |
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