Celebrated Australians Want Services Restored To Refugees

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A dozen celebrated Australians on Thursday sent an open letter to their government warning that asylum seekers could die at a decommissioned immigration camp on Papua New Guinea where food, water power and medical care were cut off more than three weeks ago. The 12 former Australians of the Year called on Australia to restore basic services to the camp on Manus Island and allow doctors to provide care there as reports emerged of an operation on Thursday to evict the remaining asylum seekers. "It is inevitable that people will become sick and even die through the lack of basic sanitation, food, water and medical care," the letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten said.

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