Police to check for human remains after suspected burial site found on remote Western Australia island

Fears Indonesian fishers could be buried on Imperieus reef in Rowley Shoals marine park after nine went missing in a cyclone earlier this year

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Western Australia police will investigate a “burial site” on a remote island off the north-west coast, with fears Indonesian fishers are buried there.

Shipwreck survivors were rescued from the area after Cyclone Ilsa earlier this year, but nine of their shipmates were reported missing, feared dead.

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