Refugees run from detention during riot

Saturday, March 30, 2002

WOOMERA, Australia -- Up to 20 asylum seekers, including one child, escaped from an Australian detention center Friday by scaling fences topped with razor wire or cutting holes with bolt cutters thrown to them by protesters outside.

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