Labor wants answers after asylum seekers flown back to Sri Lanka from Cocos Islands

By Bianca Hall
Updated May 6 2016 - 4:13pm, first published 3:27pm
Australian customs officials watch an earlier boatload off asylum seekers which made it to the Cocos Islands  Photo: Karen Willshaw
Australian customs officials watch an earlier boatload off asylum seekers which made it to the Cocos Islands Photo: Karen Willshaw
This boatload of suspected Sri Lankan boat people arrived at the Cocos Islands in July 2012. Photo: Karen Willshaw
This boatload of suspected Sri Lankan boat people arrived at the Cocos Islands in July 2012. Photo: Karen Willshaw

Labor has called on the government to assure the Australian people it has not returned refugees to harm, after officials bundled a group of asylum seekers on to a chartered flight to Sri Lanka.

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