News Forum - Manhunt continues for escaped Rohingya migrants in Malaysia

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Malaysian authorities are still on the hunt for 130 illegal Rohingya migrants, who escaped barefoot from a temporary immigration depot near the Kedah-Penang border on Wednesday, after a riot broke out at the facility yesterday. The migrants were reportedly protesting overcrowding at the facility when they escalated into a riot. The undocumented migrants still on the run include at total of 99 men, 21 women and 10 children, according to Kedah police chief Comm Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad. Authorities earlier said that 528 of the 664 Rohingya detainees had fled from the Sungai Bakap temporary detention depot, after a riot […]

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