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Old 19th July 2001 | 12:54
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Diesel Fitter
 
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From News Ltd. Web site -

"State spent $2m rescuing suspected drug runners

TWO sailors allegedly caught on board a yacht packed with a record drug cargo had been saved three months earlier from a sinking boat in a multimillion-dollar taxpayer-funded rescue off Queensland's central coast.
The April rescue cost the State Government at least $2million after one of its helicopters crashed into the sea trying to pluck the two Malaysian nationals from a stricken yacht on Swain Reefs, 200km off Rockhampton."

More may be found at www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2377714%255E3102,00.html
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