Two locals nabbed in Kota Baru migrant smuggling crackdown


KOTA BARU: The Kelantan Immigration Department arrested two local men and five illegal immigrants in a crackdown on a migrant smuggling syndicate, carried out under Ops Serkap around Kota Bharu on Sunday and Monday (Jan 2).

Its deputy director, Nik Akhtarulhaq Nik Abdul Rahman, said the five immigrants comprised two men and three women from Myanmar, aged 20 to 40.

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