Asylum seeker boat: another body found

Another body has been found by crews searching the site of the asylum seeker boat capsize north of Christmas Island.

The latest body brings the confirmed death count to six.

Customs and Border Protection has also revised the number of survivors to 110 after conducting a head count on Christmas Island.

But some 90 passengers are still unaccounted for since the crowded vessel capsized on Thursday afternoon about halfway between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island.

Authorities say it is unlikely more survivors will be found.

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