Filipino nationals being escorted to board the vessel back to their hometown.
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Immigration Department has continued its deportation exercise with the latest eviction of 132 Filipinos.
The deportation on Tuesday (Jan 14), involved a total of 73 men, 20 women, 22 girls and 17 boys from Sandakan to Lahad Datu, said the department via their official Facebook page.
All children detainees returned home with their parents or guardians, and everyone paid their own expenses back to the Philippines.
The cost for each adult passenger from Sandakan to Lahad Datu is RM375, RM210 for children between the ages of five and 13, and free for those under the age of four.
The department said that these deportations are done on a continued basis depending on how fast the Philippine embassy issues travel documents for their nationals involved.
The issuance of travel documents from the embassy to these detainees play an important role in the deportation process.
In a similar operation in Kota Kinabalu, a total of seven Pakistani and an Indian national were sent back to their home countries via air routes from Malaysia.
Those deported were men aged between 19 and 37 who had completed legal processes including serving jail terms for immigration offences here in the country.
They bore the cost of travel themselves.
