KUALA LUMPUR: Some 155 Uighur illegal immigrants, including 76 children, have been detained by the authorities following reports that Uighur militants were using Malaysia as a transit point.
The Immigration Department raided two apartment units in Taman Bukit Jalil near here on Wednesday and discovered the illegals from China’s Xinjiang province.
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