MMEA foils undocumented migrants bid to land on Sabah's Tip of Borneo


KOTA KINABALU: An attempt by a group of undocumented migrants to land on the popular tourist site of Simpang Mengayau, or Tip of Borneo, in Sabah's northern Kudat district has been foiled by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA).

The group was attempting to sneak in under the cloak of darkness on a wooden pump boat from the Mangsee Islands, Palawan in the Philippines on Tuesday (Aug 1).

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