Depot riot: Women, children among Rohingya casualties, say Penang cops


By G.C.TAN

ALOR SETAR: Women and children were among Rohingya detainees killed in several road accidents while trying to escape from the immigration detention depot in Relau, Bandar Baharu here on Wednesday (April 20), say Penang police.

Penang police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said in one of the accidents, six of the escapees comprising two men, two women and two children (a boy and a girl) were killed.

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