Police catch 12 more immigrant detention centre escapees

Police in Australia hunting illegal immigrants who escaped in a mass break-out from a remote desert detention centre caught 12 more of them, leaving 12 still on the run, a spokesman said today.

There were growing fears for the health of the 10 men and two boys still at large - temperatures in the desert around Woomera, a former missile-testing base in the Outback, dipped below freezing last night.