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Fifty Lost Within Sight of Land: The Janga's Final Crossing
Fifty Lost Within Sight of Land: The Janga's Final Crossing
Fifty people died or went missing within ten minutes after a wooden boat struck the rocks off Christmas Island while the vessel had been visible from the clifftop for more than an hour - the coroner later called the disaster "generally foreseeable." How could a fifteen-metre fishing boat carrying ninety-two people, stripped of emergency gear and trailing black smoke, end up wrecked within sight of land?
In this episode, we tell the story of the Janga and the final crossing that left twenty bodies unrecovered and three children…
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