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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Tory Shepherd

Police to check for human remains after suspected burial site found on remote Western Australia island

satellite image of cyclone off north-west coast of Australia
Bureau of Meteorology satellite image shows tropical Cyclone Ilsa in April. Western Australian police will check a site on Imperieus reef for human after reports of a possible burial site. Photograph: Reuters

Western Australia police will investigate a “burial site” on a remote island off the north-west coast, with fears Indonesian fishers are buried there.

Shipwreck survivors were rescued from the area after Cyclone Ilsa earlier this year, but nine of their shipmates were reported missing, feared dead.

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