Pacific

Australia Immigration flies more asylum seekers to Manus

04:24 am on 29 August 2013

Australian immigration officials have flown another group of asylum seekers from Christmas Island to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

The group of 40, which included 38 Iranians and 2 from Iraq, takes the total number of inmates at the Manus Island camp to 458.

There are also 486 would-be refugees at the camps on Nauru.