79 illegal immigrants nabbed at northern border


PADANG BESAR: Seventy-nine illegal immigrants from Myanmar trying to sneak into Malaysia were nabbed by police near the Malaysia-Thailand border.

Also arrested was a Malaysian who was trying to bring 12 Myanmar nationals into the country in a Proton Iswara.

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