have died and two others are critically injured after a landslide in australia. the man and his nine year old son were killed by falling rocks in the blue mountains near sydney. a woman and her 1a year old son were taken to hospital with serious head and abdominal injuries. and her 15 year old daughter was treated for shock. 0ur correspondent in sydney, phil mercer, has been giving us the latest. the mayor of the blue mountains to the west of sydney is describing this as an unspeakable tragedy. a family of five set out yesterday, monday, on a hike near wentworth falls, a very popular tourist destination about 60 miles to the west of the opera house here in sydney. they were walking down a track when a landslide let loose an unknown amount of rock, we know a man and his nine year old son were hit by rocks, a woman aged 50 and a teenage boy suffered very serious head and abdominal injuries and the authorities are praising the courage and the composure of that 15 year old girl, she escape
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nine year old son were hit by rocks and they died. a woman aged 50 and a teenage boy suffered very serious head and abdominal injuries, and the authorities are praising the courage and the composure of that 15 year old girl. she escaped physically unharmed, and we understand that she called emergency services, being composed enough to guide or to give them hints as to where she was, given that she didn t know her exact location. there then unfolded a very complex and delicate operation to rescue her mother and her teenage brother, who suffered those critical injuries. they were winched out by a rescue helicopter and taken to two separate hospitals here in sydney. they ve both undergone surgery. we don t know their condition at the moment. we also do know that earlier today, the bodies of her father and that other nine year old boy were also retrieved. so in the words of, as i say, the mayor of the blue mountains,
this is not the first time excessive use was used by the border patrol. he says three of his agents were hit by rocks and that they tried to target the men and more men were apprehended. the president is saying if anyone throws a rock at you, treat it as if they re shooting at you. that s not a message that should be sent. very rarely are they in mortal danger with rocks. we re going to investigate what s happening on the ground. tear gassing families seems unnecessary to us. anywhere between 5,000 and 9,000 migrants in tijuana, mexicali. what percentage of those people, human beings, mind you, do you feel have a case for asylum? that s an important question you re asking. it s very difficult for us to know but a significant number, based on past year. half? no, i don t think half will.
the caravan, though, 5,000 to 9,000, depending on which count you believe that is in tijuana, those are people coming to the border, as far as you know, for asylum. isn t it? i do not believe that is true. there are definitely people in that group that are going to try to claim asylum. the vast majority of those, from what we call the triangle are economic reasons. they can still apply. i did not see people walk up to border agents and asked to claim asylum. one of the groups i ve seen, several of them that were arrested, they past 10 or 15 marked border patrol units walking east to west, numerous uniformed personnel as they were chanting, waving a honduran flag and throwing rocks at the agents. if they were truly asylum seekers, they would have walked