200 Filipinos deported back via Sandakan port on Feb 8

KOTA KINABALU: Some 200 Filipinos were deported back under a Sabah Immigration Department programme via Sandakan port on Wednesday (Feb 8).

Sabah Immigration director Datuk SH Sitti Saleha Habib Yusoff said this third series for deportation via sea route for 2023 only involved those from the Papar immigration depot, where the undocumented migrants were put on the Mv Antonia 1 ferry bound for Zamboanga City Port, the Philippines.