Kedah's top cop says 176 detainees still at large after prison break


GEORGE TOWN: A total of 176 Rohingya detainees at the immigration detention centre in Relau, Bandar Baharu, in Kedah are still on the run, says Kedah police chief Comm Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad.

He said of the total 664 detainees at the centre, police have successfully recovered 352 of them and 136 are currently still in the camp.

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