Sunday, June 20, 2004. 12:21pm (AEST)ABC website; Asylum seeker hospitalised after overdose

A man held at the Baxter detention centre in South Australia is recovering in hospital in Adelaide after an incident at the facility yesterday. The man climbed onto the roof of the centre at about 6:00am ACST yesterday and took an overdose of pills. An Immigration Department spokesman says the man, an Iranian asylum seeker, was brought down and taken to the Port Augusta Hospital. Last night he was airlifted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he is in a stable condition.