ALOR SETAR: Police are still tracking down the remaining 72 Rohingya detainees who escaped from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot near Bandar Baharu here on Wednesday (April 20).
Kedah police chief Comm Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad said eight detainees were recaptured on Saturday and Sunday , while efforts to track down the remaining escapees were ongoing.
"As of Sunday evening, 72 more detainees are still at large and the operation to track them down is still going on," he said in a statement.In the incident that occurred early Wednesday morning, 528 Rohingya detainees broke out from the detention depot. Six of them, however, were killed after they were hit by a vehicle while attempting to escape on an expressway. - Bernama
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