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Kyle Dowling

Pigeon Hole residents to remain at Howard Springs facility after government deadline for repatriation

Residents of Pigeon Hole, which was heavily flooded, will have to remain at Howard Springs until the end of the month.  (Supplied)

Flood evacuees from a remote Northern Territory community are still living at the Howard Springs facility, despite the government saying all evacuees would be repatriated by today. 

About 700 people were taken to the Centre for National Resilience (CNR), just south of Darwin, after they were forced to flee their homes in the remote communities of Kalkarindji, Daguragu and Pigeon Hole on March 1.

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