Ruckus at Immigration detention depot due to delay in deportation, no one hurt

By STEPHANIE LEE

An enforcement official trying to negotiate with the immigration detainees during the ruckus.

KOTA KINABALU: A ruckus broke out at the Immigration detention depot here when some 400 Filipino detainees protested that they could no longer wait to be deported.

The incident started when some of the women detainees created a scene and complained why they were forced to stay so long in the detention centre.

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