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Asylum seekers who jumped off a sinking boat drowned, WA coroner finds
The WA coroner has confirmed the drowning deaths of three men who went missing after making a raft to escape a sinking asylum seeker boat.
Mohammad Hassan, Mohammad Noor and a man known as Mr Sabibullah were among a group of 16 asylum seekers — mostly from Myanmar — and three Indonesian crew members who left Java in January 2013 to travel to Australia.
A coronial inquest earlier this year was…