Rewritten but not deleted.

This wasn't the type of error I had in mind when I started this blog, but it's a simple editing error which, if computers can't spot it, at least a human could (or vice versa).

In this article about two boats, this paragraph:

Their boat, carrying more than 250 ethnic Tamils, was intercepted last weekend by the Indonesian navy en route to Australia and taken to the Javanese city of Merak.

was followed closely by this paragraph:

The boat had been intercepted by the Indonesian navy en route to Australia and taken to the Javanese port city of Merak.

One would guess that the 2nd paragraph was copied-and-pasted then rewritten as the first and someone forgot to delete the original, as the repeated words highlighted in bold make up over 80% of the 2nd paragraph.

Could happen to anyone on a deadline - so it's