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Four injured asylum seekers are being flown to Brisbane for treatment after yesterday's boat explosion off north-west Australia.
They will be treated at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
The RAAF has taken 16 injured asylum seekers to Perth for treatment and eight are in a Darwin hospital.
The patients were met by a fleet of 10 ambulances and were taken under police escort straight to Royal Perth Hospital, where doctors are already treating six asylum seekers also injured in the explosion.
The head of Royal Perth Professor Paul Mark says most of the seriously injured have severe burns.
"Variously ranging between 15 and up to 30 per cent," Prof Mark said.
The navy patrol boat HMAS Albany is sailing to Darwin with 13 of the less seriously injured victims.
Three people died yesterday's blast, two people are still missing.
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