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Locked up: Some of the foreigners are seen inside one of the rooms of the house in Taman Sejati Indah in Sungai Petani.

SUNGAI PETANI: Police rescued 46 foreigners, comprising of Bang­ladeshis and Myanmar nationals, who were confined in a house in Taman Sejati Indah here.

Aged between 18 and 45, they appeared tired when they were found inside the double-storey house at about 4am yesterday after residents, who heard a continuous commotion, alerted the police at the beat base in the neighbourhood.

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