MMEA foils two boat attempts to smuggle migrants off Selangor coast


KLANG: Selangor Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) foils attempts to smuggle illegal migrants into the state’s waters and detains two boats during a special operation in the early hours of Monday (Jan 26).

Its director, Maritime Captain Abdul Muhaimin Muhammad Salleh, said the first seizure involved a fibreglass boat without a registration number, detained at about 12.30am, roughly 1.5 nautical miles southwest of Bagan Nakhoda Omar.

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