Asylum boat detected with 60 on board

A suspected asylum seeker vessel was detected in waters near Christmas Island. Source: AAP

THE navy is escorting an asylum seeker boat with about 60 passengers on board to Christmas Island.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) received a call from the vessel on Sunday morning, and asked the navy to assist.

A navy ship arrived in the early afternoon, and after boarding the asylum vessel began escorting it toward Christmas Island, an AMSA spokesman told AAP.

Under the Rudd government's tough new asylum seeker deal, any asylum seekers arriving by boat without a visa after last Friday will be sent to Papua New Guinea for processing.

If they're found to be genuine refugees, they may be resettled in PNG but not in Australia.

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