KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — An additional 100 Immigration Department and General Operations Force (GOF) personnel have been mobilised to locate 130 detainees who escaped from the Bidor Immigration Detention Depot in Perak.
Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said all the members had been mobilised this morning to continue the search operation.
He noted that a total of 275 personnel from various agencies, such as immigration, GOF and the People’s Volunteer Corps (Rela), had been deployed since last night to track the detainees.
“The Immigration Department, assisted by several other agencies, has been actively conducting operations to recapture 130 of the 131 prisoners who escaped at 9.50pm yesterday.
“A detainee has been confirmed to have been killed in a road accident,” he said in a statement today.
Ruslin also urged members of the public who have information related to the escaped detainees to contact the Bidor Immigration Depot operations room at 05-4348736, Bidor police station (05-4342222) or Tapah police station (05-4011222).
A total of 131 illegal immigrants escaped from the men’s block of the Bidor Immigration Detention Depot, Perak last night.
Earlier, Tapah district police chief Supt Mohd Naim Asnawi reportedly said that of the number, 115 were ethnic Rohingya while 16 were Myanmar nationals.
— Bernama
