425 illegal immigrants including those from Myanmar, Indonesia and Bangladesh hauled up from apartment units turned into settlements in KL

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Immigration personnel rounded up 425 illegal immigrants holed up at several units of an apartment block in Cheras here early Saturday, hauling them out of cupboards and refuse bins in some cases.

Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department director Syamsul Badrin Mohshin said the raid at the Cheria Heights Apartments,was carried out following investigations and surveillance for two weeks after complaints from the public who said the number of foreigners in the area was too large and causing various social problems.