Vietnamese asylum seekers have claimed up to 30 people were injured in an attack by a group of Iranian detainees at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre, the ABC reports.
The Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN) claims two asylum seekers contacted them in two separate private messages on Facebook.
"Somebody [was] hurt in [the] head, somebody hurt in [the] arms and legs, in the back," the asylum seeker wrote in the Facebook post, adding that nobody responded to calls for assistance.
Refugee advocate Nam Pham from the Vietnamese community in Perth told the ABC he also had received a call from a Vietnamese asylum seeker in the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
"He said he tried to contact the police, but he said he either couldn't get through or they couldn't come in to help," he told the ABC.
"He said basically Serco people were afraid of the violence going on there, so the [Vietnamese asylum seekers] got beaten up.
"They had to stay outside their compound for the whole night, they were too afraid to go back into their compound."
A spokesperson for Immigration Scott Morrison said the reports were inaccurate.
"Claims referred to by asylum advocates in relation to the incident on Christmas Island are grossly inaccurate," The ABC quoted a spokesman for the minister as saying.
"The incident was dealt with in the usual manner and the centre returned to normal operation."
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