Another group of foreign nationals turn up in Western Australia's remote north, following the discovery of around two dozen men near the tiny Indigenous community of Beagle Bay on Friday morning.
It's not clear if they are part of the same group who surprised locals at a remote Indigenous community on Friday, arriving on a beach after days at sea.A Nauru Airlines plane has arrived in Broome but it's unclear where the men will be taken.
They were in two groups, with about 21 discovered early on Friday, and a further three close to midday. ABC reporter Rosanne Maloney, who is in the region, said the bus turned off toward Derby, more than 200km north of Broome, before heading in the direction of the Curtin RAAF base. But it's been years since asylum seekers have arrived unannounced on the coastline, leading to surreal scenes as authorities scrambled to work out how to physically detain and process the men.
Beagle Bay residents told the ABC they believed another group of men had been located and the police had been dispatched to try to locate them. He told the ABC he had lived in Australia previously, but had been deported back to Pakistan because of a visa issue.
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