Australia Christmas Island Detention Centre

Australian police reinforcements poured into remote Christmas Island on Tuesday to help quell unrest at a migrant detention centre, amid reports inmates had armed themselves with machetes and petrol bombs.

A disturbance broke out Monday at Australia's Christmas Island detention centre, the immigration department said, amid reports rioters seized control of the facility after the death of an asylum seeker.

More than 200 rioters torched buildings and tried to escape a crowded Australian offshore detention centre in an escalation of protests to gain asylum in the country, officials said on Friday.More than 100 police firing non-lethal so-called bean bag rounds and tear gas canisters regained control over the detention centre on Christmas Island after t...

Australian police reinforcements poured into remote Christmas Island on Tuesday to help quell unrest at a migrant detention centre, amid reports inmates had armed themselves with machetes and petrol bombs.

A disturbance broke out Monday at Australia's Christmas Island detention centre, the immigration department said, amid reports rioters seized control of the facility after the death of an asylum seeker.

More than 200 rioters torched buildings and tried to escape a crowded Australian offshore detention centre in an escalation of protests to gain asylum in the country, officials said on Friday.More than 100 police firing non-lethal so-called bean bag rounds and tear gas canisters regained control over the detention centre on Christmas Island after t...