MAKESHIFT SHELTERS TORN DOWN IN REFUGEE CAMP

Papua New Guinea authorities destroyed makeshift shelters and removed water stores in a shuttered Australia refugee camp Friday, just hours ahead of a deadline for the inmates to leave or be forced out. The Manus Island camp held asylum-seekers who tried to reach Australia by boat under Canberra’s tough immigration policy, but was ruled unconstitutional by PNG’s Supreme Court and closed on October 31. Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian refugee on Manus, tweeted Friday that shelters were torn down and rubbish bins used to collect rainwater had been destroyed. “We built these shelters to provide shade & cover from tropical sun & rain,” he wrote. He said workers on Thursday had also removed security fences around the centre.