WA Police searching for man thought to have arrived in Australia on 'unknown vessel'

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WA Police searching for man thought to have arrived in Australia on 'unknown vessel'
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A group of people arrived by boat in Western Australia's northern Kimberley region on Friday, the ABC understands.

The ABC understands a group of people have arrived in Australia on a boat which landed in the WA's Kimberley region.

A group of people arrived by boat in Western Australia's northern Kimberley region on Friday, the ABC understands. The ABC understands the group was discovered at the remote Mungalulu-Truscott Airbase on Friday afternoon. "The land search operation is in its preliminary stages and is taking place in an extremely remote area with challenging terrain," the statement said.More details are emerging of how shocked locals rescued boat arrivals from the bush and why one mystery remains — what happened to the boat?Police said they had been advised the man "may have been a passenger on an unknown vessel", but did not provide the source of that information.

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