SYDNEY: Hundreds of fearful refugees were urged to leave an Australian detention camp in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday as conditions worsened with power and water cut in a tense standoff.

Canberra agreed to close its Manus Island facility by the end of October after the PNG Supreme Court ruled that holding people there was unconstitutional.

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