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Pakistani seafarers face deportation from Australia after failed asylum leap
Australia’s Immigration Department has ruled it will deport three Pakistani seafarers who jumped from their livestock carrier last week in Fremantle in a shock asylum bid.
The men were working on the Bader III when they leapt off the vessel and swam to a berth operated by DP World where they were picked up, unable to get through the terminal’s security set-up.
The Bader III is now en route to the southern Israeli port of Eilat.
A similar incident happened five years ago when seven men were arrested by immigration authorities after walking off a different livestock ship in Fremantle.