A boat carrying asylum seekers has landed in Far North Queensland.
Nine News reported the boat was intercepted at Weipa, about 2000 kilometres north-west of Brisbane.
It said about a dozen people, believed to be Chinese nationals, were on the boat.
Several people were taken into custody.
A spokesperson for the Australian Border Force told this masthead it would “not comment on or confirm operational matters”.
Queensland police and the Australian Federal Police also declined to comment.
Weipa is a remote community on the western coast of the Cape York Peninsula, within 400 kilometres of the Papua New Guinea mainland.
Six Chinese nationals were found wandering around an outback community in Australia’s remote north-west late last year.
The men were found at the community of Kalumburu, on Western Australia’s remote northern coast.
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