Sabah Immigration Dept nabs 141 during major raid in Keningau


Some of the illegal immigrants being checked by Immigration officers during a raid in Sabah's interior Keningau.

KOTA KINABALU: A total of 141 illegal immigrants from the Philippines and Indonesia were detained during a major operation by the Immigration Department in Sabah's interior Keningau district.

Sabah Immigration Department director Datuk Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof reported that 216 people were checked during the operation, with 141 foreigners detained on suspicion of committing various immigration offences.

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